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- From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
- Subject: Re: 256 Colors in WPS
- Message-ID: <By202q.7H9@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <Bxx6Bu.23M@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov20.133454.5132@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:44:48 GMT
- Lines: 87
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- In article <1992Nov20.133454.5132@odin.diku.dk> gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen) writes:
- >vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel) writes:
- >
- >>I hope this question hasn't been asked a million times...... but I'll ask it
- >>anyways....
- >
- >> Is there a way to get 256 colors as a background in the WPS... I have
- >>installed the latest service pack( I ordered it from IBM), I have run dspinstl,
- >>and loaded the TSENG SVGA drivers in 1024 x 768 x 256 and the 640 x 480 x 256
- >>and rebooted... Then typed svga on in both the dos full screen and os2 full
- >>screen and no go. What I want to do is have a SVGA .Gif picture converted
- >>to .BMP mode and displayed on the screen as a background in the Work Place
- >>Shell. I used gif2bmp, and the latest vpic to do the conversions. I can view
- >>the .bmp in 256 colors using vpic but when I put it as the background it only
- >>comes up in 16 colors!!!!! Is there a program out there that will fix this.
- >>Or did I do something wrong......
- >
- >> Thanks
- >
- >> Dave V
- >
- >1) You tell, that you have used dspinstl to install the hires Tseng drivers.
- >This is a bad mistake. You should ALWAYS use selective install to install
- >a new display driver. Its possible to install a display driver with dspinstl,
- >but it wont make all the neccesary changes to your system. For one thing,
- >you wont get the proper fonts installed - just have a look at the ugly font
- >used for the tabs on a notebook. More seriously, dspinstl will sometimes
- >give you a highly unstable system - I guess that it doesnt replace all the
- >files. But all is not lost. You should use selective install to install the
- >plain vanilla VGA drivers (which will fix up the mess you've made. Then reboot
- >and once again use selective install to install the required drivers, and
- >all will be fine. It may seem a bit strange, why IBM has included the dspinstl
- >program, when as a matter of fact you should NEVER use it. But whatever the
- >reason is, the dspinstl program is NOT DOCUMENTED and IBM has never mentioned
- >it, which should give you a fair warning against using it. The README file
- >for the CSD specificly says, that you should use selective install to
- >install new graphic drivers!
- >
- >2) If youve installed the TSENG drivers from the CSD, you will most definately
- >have a 256 color display (since all the TSENG drivers from the CSD are
- >256 color drivers). The catch is, that the palette management in these drivers
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >isnt as good as one could hope for. This means that most 256 color bitmaps
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >will look strange when used as a background. There are two "workarounds"
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >for this: Find a bitmap whose pallete closely matches the one tha OS/2 uses,
- >or convert your bitmap to greytones. It seems that the OS/2 pallete includes
- >all the 64 greytones that can be generated, so B/W bitmaps look just fine.
- >The problem with Windows programs messing up the pallette, is due to OS/2
- >allowing Windows programs to play around with the pallette. I dont think,
- >that theres any workaround for this.
- >
- >Regards
- >
- >Peter Skov Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk
- >Computer science student, University of Copenhagen
-
-
- Can we expect fixes for these flawed Tseng 4000 drivers in the next CSD with
- the Windows 3.1 release of OS/2?
-
-
-
- (******************** IBM ARE YOU LISTENING ?????? ************************)
-
-
-
- Or what card can I buy where the drivers ARE working correctly?
- I would like to FINALLY get a card where I can run the OS/2 WPS in
- 1024x768 and hopefully in 256 (working) colors at a decent speed...
-
- HELP!!!!!
- HELP!!!!!
- HELP!!!!!
-
-
- Thanks!
-
- - Eric Wolf
- ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-
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