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- 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
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- On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Richard Steiner wrote:
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- >
- > 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
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