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S3, ARK patch for WHITE BORDER
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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