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From: tici@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Thissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Genoa SVGA 6400 Bug?
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.174623.536@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:46:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.135135.28616@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
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mnrausch@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Rausche (AKBP WS 1990)) writes:

>I think that there are some bugs in the BIOS of this graphics card.
>1) There is no cursor in the right column of the screen (press space until
>   you reach the right border of the screen)
>2) If you initialize a graphics mode the screen is not blanked.
>3) The scrolling procedure of Int10h doesn't set the directionflag. That
>   occurs if you for example write a TP programm that changes this flag 
>   ( sometimes a Move does this ) and you then call ClrScr. The line at the
>   bottom of the screen is not blanked.

>Any comments? Thanks in advance. Martin.

I have the same problem using my GENOA 6400 (BIOS 3.30).

I think it`s a board-timing-problem too. (I have a SUNTAC-AT-286) 

(Ever used the VESA driver for GENOA 6400 .. it`s great !)

   Thomas


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