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From: ernst_witter@eva.slu.se
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: problem using 800x600 with Trindent VGA (TVGA)
Message-ID: <7298.27537120@eva.slu.se>
Date: 28 Nov 90 07:11:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.091741.24325@eecs.wsu.edu> <1990Nov26.222456.24565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Nov26.222456.24565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, eric@eecg.toronto.edu (Eric Smith) writes:
> 
> I have the same hardware combination as you (MagicSync monitor
> and Trident 8800-based VGA), and the same problems.  The 800x600
> mode is severely compressed horizontally, and I have also found that
> 640x480x256 mode under Win3 produces a scrambled picture (Edwin
> Ng, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, reported the same problem), and the
> 1024x768 mode flickers too much for prolonged use.  I have tried
> the drivers from cica as well as downloading directly from the
> Trident BBS, but to no avail.
> 
> Has any Trident owner been able to solve these problems?
> 

No, I haven't been able to solve the problem, but have experienced
much the same problem as described above. I first ascribed it to perhaps
be due to my monitor (the flickering that is), but I don't have the same
problem when I use the 800x600 or 1024x768 drivers for WP5.1. Compression
of the screen does however occur at these resolutions, but I think that
that is definitly an inevitable feature of most monitors.

Ernst Witter