Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!corton!chorus!opera.chorus.fr!mir From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Using SVGA Modes on VGA Monitor Message-ID: <8013@chorus.fr> Date: 27 Feb 91 13:43:21 GMT References: Sender: mir@chorus.fr Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France Lines: 15 In article , dd2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Eugene Dwiggins) writes: %% No, No, No. You missed the post I was replying to. The owner had a fixed %% freqency VGA monitor and was trying to use the 640x480x256 mode. %% The trident is the only video card that I've seen that doesn't support this %% mode on a standard VGA monitor. There's no question that it supports it %% on a multisync. Yes. The timings my Trident 8900 produces in 256 colors mode are different from the 16 colors mode ones. My multisync needs to be adjusted to display the image in the same place. In 256 color modes image tend to be lower. Could someone explain the reason? -- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74 Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX