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Received: from sunspot.tiac.net (sunspot.tiac.net [199.0.65.22]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA22010 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:07:12 -0700 Received: (from eretic@localhost) by sunspot.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.6.6.Beta9) id WAA27957; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:07:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Palm <eretic@sunspot.tiac.net> To: Richard Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Flickering video card In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950822154624.15960A@mirage> Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950822220515.26855B-100000@sunspot.tiac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Richard Steiner wrote: > > auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach) wrote: > > > since there's so much euphoria around here I think I'm going to > > complain a little bit: > > <Grin> > > > I'm currently running 1.99o4 on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM and a > > ATI Mach 32 VLB with 2 MB VRAM. No matter wether I run executor in > > normal or 800x600 mode, the screen always flickers like hell (yes, > > I'm also using the UNIVBE driver, newest version). > > Sounds to me like your video card is defaulting to a crummy refresh > rate. You need to run some software (my Diamond SteedStar 64 has > a utility called SSMODE) that will kick the card into high gear from > a DOS session. Windows and OS/2 drivers do this for you, but in > DOS it often has to be explicitly done. > > That also applies to OS/2 VDMs, BTW, and possibly other VMs in other > environments as well. > > That's my semi-educated guess, anyway. :-) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@skypoint.com >>>---> Bloomington, MN > > Written online (ugh!) using pine! > The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > I haven't figured out how to run Executor in anything but the default 640 x 480. How did you set up for 800 x 600? BTW I'm not having your problem either, and that driver doesn't speed up anything. I must have had a Vesa 2 compliant SVGA VLB 24 bit card (a Trident) and is recognized by the uvb. Eric