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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get TVGA 512K to work in 256 colours. HELP!!
Summary: Try VESA
Keywords: TVGA, Trident, Display 256 colours
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.211605.29283@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 31 Oct 90 21:16:05 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.062138.719@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Oct30.062138.719@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Ng) writes:
! I have a TVGA card with 512K ram which no drivers seem to be able to 
! set to 640x480 256 colours.
! 
! It has a Trident TVGA BIOS C3-129 Ver 1.01 dated 22-May-89.  I have 
! been using it for 6 months for wordprocessing (50 lines) on a 386SX
! with 2MB ram running on AMI 386 bios (1989).  Now I have started using 
! Windows 3.0 and I just get a screenful of green lines when I configure
! with tvgawin3 drivers recently posted on comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  That
! is only with 640x480 256 colour mode.  The other drivers for 16 colour
! 800x600 and 1024x768 worked perfectly!
! 
! I have also tried using CSHOW, VPIC & VUIMG to view gifs in hires mode
! and got even worse results except for CSHOW.  CSHOW is able to display
! 640x480 (256C) in its standard mode but not when I use Trident or any
! other video drivers.  VPIC and VUIMG only works in the standard VGA
! 300x200 (256C).  All the supplied drivers can't work at all in ANY
! extended VGA mode.

If the card comes with VESA SuperVGA support, try using the VESA
driver that comes with VUIMAGE Version 2.62 or later.

Venu P. Gopal   UUCP: ..!att!cbnewsc!vgopal   Internet: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com