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Subject: Re: Tseng 4000 Win3 enhanced mode driver bug?
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From: Aaron.Roydhouse@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Aaron Roydhouse)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 01:38:41 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.144613.9981@cc.newcastle.edu.au>,
sysnett@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>Recently, there have been a couple of messages posted here concerning
>problems
>with a Tseng 4000 chipset SVGA card operating in 256 colour mode in
>386
>enhanced mode.
>
> [List of various peoples problems with ET4000 drivers]
>
>Does anyone else with a Tseng 4000 chipset SVGA card have similar
>problems?

I have one 386 at with with an Orchid Pro II, and another at work as well
as a 386SX with an Orchid Pro/e (also ET4000).

 - I do NOT have any problems with Word docs over 7 pages

 - I do NOT have any problems with Pagemaker 3 or 4

 - I DO have the problem with wallpapers >1024 by about 729

Although I never tried standard mode, I found that whether the bmp was 16
or 256 colours didn't matter, but it had to less that a particular height
(about 729, but the actual figure eludes me now). It occurred to me at the
time that it seemed to be the whole screen minus the height of the row of
icon at the bottom. It would seem that it is perhaps the size of the
wallpaper _in memory_ that matters, rather than the source bmp size.
Anyone know how Windows stores it? DVD or DVI?

>I would particularly like to know if there are any "non-preliminary
>release" or
>other Windows 3 SVGA drivers for the Tseng 4000 that work in 386
>enhanced mode
>using 256 colours.

I almost definitely have the preliminary release (as supplied with the Pro II).
There was a tsng4311.zip file in uploads on cica which certainly has
_different_ versions, but I found it hard to tell which were newer so I
haven't tried them. They were ostensibly supplied with another brand of
ET4000 board.

Aaron.
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