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From: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Orchid ProII/TL4000 Drivers (Where?)
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Date: 28 May 91 08:09:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: rafetmad@oxy.edu's message of 26 May 91 22:39:44 GMT

>>>>> On 26 May 91 22:39:44 GMT, rafetmad@oxy.edu (David Ronald Giller) said:

> The 800x600x256 drivers require 1024K of memory.  They will not work on
> 512K cards.	The original poster wants drivers which will use the
> 800x600x256 mode of the 512K cards, which these drivers will not do.
> They use some kind of extra buffering with video memory, and do not leave
> enough left over for 256 colors in 800x600 mode.

Ack.  This WAS true.  This is NO LONGER true.  As of revision 3.11 (January
4, 1991), the Tseng Labs 4000 chipset 800x600x256 Windows 3.0 driver now
supports 512K cards.  You will notice in the SETUP.INF from that package
that in the [display] section, the line for that driver reads:

vga468	= 6:vga468.drv, "SpeedSTAR (512K)  800x600, 256 colors", ...

Furthermore, I have a 512K card, and the driver works just fine for me.
Maybe it only works on Diamond SpeedSTARs, but I doubt that.

Any questions?

Jason Merrill
jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu