Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!venus!obrien From: obrien@venus.ycc.yale.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Problems with Orchid drivers? Message-ID: <480.270bbbfb@venus.ycc.yale.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 03:47:22 GMT References: <1139@larry.sal.wisc.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC) Lines: 44 In article , mr@ogre (Michael Regoli) writes: > In <1139@larry.sal.wisc.edu> monty@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Monty Schmidt) writes: > > >>Windows 3 Orchid drivers for Prodesigner now on Cica.. I just put em in >>/pub/pc/win3/uploads... filename win3prod.exe... self extracting archive.. >>enjoy.. >>Monty > > Thanks for uploading this to cica.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.20.22]. > > I've converted this file into a true .ZIP file. (I'd prefer only .ZIP > files at cica: they're easier to check for corruption, etc. Nothing > like spending 40 minutes downloading a huge self-extracting .EXE file > to your PC only to find that it's corrupted.) Besides, most everyone > should be running UNZIP on their Un*x machines--that way you can > actually do something witn the .ZIP before transferring it to your PC. > > -- > michael regoli > mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu > regoli@iubacs.bitnet > ....rutgers!iuvax!cica!mr I downloaded the ProDesigner drivers, and tried them. Within about 15 minutes of installing the 640x480x256 driver, I was able to crash the machine twice. Once, by running the KLOTZ Tetris clone game, and once without any apparent reason. I then installed the 800x600x16, which seems OK. It doesn't seem any faster than the generic 800x600x16 driver posted here a while back, though. The one nice (?) difference is that it uses larger fonts. My machine is a Jameco 286 motherboard/AMI BIOS/2Mb RAM/2 20Mb Seagate 225's and I run exclusively in standard mode. Can those Orchid users who try the drivers please try to make notes of the circumstances surrounding any system crashes, so that we can make specific recommendations regarding the next version? ======================================================================== OBRIEN%OBRIEN@YALEVMS Jim O'Brien, Dept. of Chem. Engrg. OBRIEN%OBRIEN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU Yale University OBRIEN@YALEVMS 2159 YS, New Haven CT 06520, U.S.A. OBRIEN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU +1 203 432 4382 (days) >INTERNET:OBRIEN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU (from Compuserve Easyplex) ========================================================================