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- From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Simple Question: How/when do you use VMODE?
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 08:29:09 GMT
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- According to hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman):
- >I've heard of this command having to do with setting the video mode for
- >correct display resolutions. BUT, where's the documentation? I tired
- >"Help Vmode" and got big fat 0.
-
- VMODE.EXE is a progam that comes with most Tseng ET4000 based video cards
- (Orchid calls their version PEMODE.EXE for the ProDesigner/e). If you have
- such a card, it will be on one of your utilities/driver diskettes. If you
- find it, copy it somewhere convenient on your hard disk, and from a DOS
- session, run VMODE /? (or VMODE /h). It will list the video modes the
- particular version of VMODE supports, and it will tell you how to make the
- changes.
-
- Other video cards also come with mode switching programs, though I can't
- remember who uses what. The ATI 8514-Ultra handles mode adjustments with
- its INSTALL program, I think, but that's really the only one I can recall.
-
- Oh, yes. Tseng ET3000 based video cards also use VMODE.EXE (like my old,
- retired Orchid Designer VGA).
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