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Re: S3, ARK patch for WHITE BORDER
Didnt work on my ARK card. I did, however, use univbe Pro 5.1a registered.
On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Christopher Oicles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have written a BIOS patch for S3-based cards which sets the
> overscan color to ffh (instead of 0) whenever a VESA mode change
> occurs. This should get rid of that annoying white border when
> using the VESA 2.0 display. This is a 1k TSR.
>
> LOAD IT AFTER YOU LOAD THE VESA 2.0 EXTENSIONS (it might not
> work otherwise).
>
> I have also placed on the FTP site a FREEWARE VESA 2.0 extension
> for S3 cards written by Dietmar Meschede. This seems to work as
> well as UniVBE in Executor -- and it's FREE!
>
> Get these at: ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/coicles/programs/
> S3os.exe -- The overscan patch TSR
> S3os.txt -- A readme file for this patch.
> S3vbe301.zip -- VBE 2.0 extensions from Dietmar Meschede
>
> If you have questions or comments, please email me at
> coicles@best.com
>
> This patch also works with ARK logic based cards. Please let
> me know if you try this on another chipset and it works.
>
> I am still uncertain whether ffh is the correct overscan color
> -- it seems to work (it gets rid of the border, but if this
> should be another value, PLEASE let me know!
>
> -Christopher Oicles
>
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