Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!skh00983 From: skh00983@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Holzgraefe) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Problems with Orchid drivers? Message-ID: <1990Oct5.055355.3488@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 05:53:55 GMT References: <1139@larry.sal.wisc.edu> <480.270bbbfb@venus.ycc.yale.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: na Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 In article <480.270bbbfb@venus.ycc.yale.edu> obrien@venus.ycc.yale.edu writes: >> {...} >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) >======================================================================== One weird problem that I ran into while installing the Orchid drivers is that when I was asked for my original Windows disks for installation of the display fonts, the info wasn't on the disk that was requested. The setup kept asking for the wrong disk. Eventually as I shuffled through my 7 3 & 1/2's it found the info it was looking for and proceeded on its merry way. Maybe it thought I had 5 & 1/4's because thats what it defaulted to... although I did specify my 3 & 1/2 drive. I dunno.... The 1024x768 on my NEC MS 3D is too jittery for my tastes. 640x480x256 has been OK so far with no problems to report. Those 256 color GIF (BMP) wallpapers look great! Steve Holzgraefe s-holzgraefe@uiuc.edu