kho@eecs.wsu.edu (ho ka-ian wilson - CS495) (11/26/90)
Hello: I have a question on using 800x600 display driver. I am using a Excel vga+ card and MagicSync mointer. Lately, I obtain a display driver for my vga card from cica. The driver name is trident VGA (TVGA). I installed it and it works fine. The only problem is that the display area on my mointer shink vertically. That is, instead of about 1/2 inch form the edge of the mointer, I have two inch from each side. This make everything show on the screen very skinny and tall. My mointer does not have a horizontal size dial for adjusting the horizontal width. Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem? May be adjusting something on the Excel vga+ card? Does anyone using the Excell vga+ card with the TVGA driver have the same problem? Any help will be appreciated. thanks in advance. kho@eecs.wsu.edu
a499@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) (11/27/90)
I had a similiar problem with my card, but my monitor has a horiz width adjuster. Sorry 8-( Rob
a499@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) (11/27/90)
I have experienced the same problems, particularly the 256 color one. That is most annoying as I can't use the board for what I bought it. 1024x768 seemed fine for me, except it is soooo slow it is not usuable. Time for an ATI Wonder+... Rob
eric@eecg.toronto.edu (Eric Smith) (11/27/90)
In article <1990Nov26.091741.24325@eecs.wsu.edu> kho@eecs.wsu.edu (ho ka-ian wilson - CS495) writes: > > I have a question on using 800x600 display driver. I am using a Excel vga+ >card and MagicSync mointer. > The only problem is that the display area on my mointer shink vertically. >That is, instead of about 1/2 inch form the edge of the mointer, I have two >inch from each side. This make everything show on the screen very skinny and >tall. My mointer does not have a horizontal size dial for adjusting the >horizontal width. > > Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem? May be adjusting >something on the Excel vga+ card? Does anyone using the Excell vga+ card >with the TVGA driver have the same problem? Any help will be appreciated. > >kho@eecs.wsu.edu I have the same hardware combination as you (MagicSync monitor and Trident 8800-based VGA), and the same problems. The 800x600 mode is severely compressed horizontally, and I have also found that 640x480x256 mode under Win3 produces a scrambled picture (Edwin Ng, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, reported the same problem), and the 1024x768 mode flickers too much for prolonged use. I have tried the drivers from cica as well as downloading directly from the Trident BBS, but to no avail. Has any Trident owner been able to solve these problems? Eric Smith Electrical Engineering Computer Group (416) 236-0908 University of Toronto eric@eecg.toronto.edu CompuServe: 72371,3015 "Eesti vabaks" GEnie: E.SMITH29
keirje@triton.unm.edu (Puppet) (11/27/90)
In article <1990Nov26.222456.24565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> eric@eecg.toronto.edu (Eric Smith) writes: >In article <1990Nov26.091741.24325@eecs.wsu.edu> kho@eecs.wsu.edu (ho ka-ian wilson - CS495) writes: >> >> I have a question on using 800x600 display driver. I am using a Excel vga+ >>card and MagicSync mointer. >> The only problem is that the display area on my mointer shink vertically. >>That is, instead of about 1/2 inch form the edge of the mointer, I have two >>inch from each side. This make everything show on the screen very skinny and >>tall. My mointer does not have a horizontal size dial for adjusting the >>horizontal width. >> >> Is there anything that I can do to fix this problem? May be adjusting >>something on the Excel vga+ card? Does anyone using the Excell vga+ card >>with the TVGA driver have the same problem? Any help will be appreciated. >> >>kho@eecs.wsu.edu > >I have the same hardware combination as you (MagicSync monitor >and Trident 8800-based VGA), and the same problems. The 800x600 >mode is severely compressed horizontally, and I have also found that >640x480x256 mode under Win3 produces a scrambled picture (Edwin >Ng, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, reported the same problem), and the >1024x768 mode flickers too much for prolonged use. I have tried >the drivers from cica as well as downloading directly from the >Trident BBS, but to no avail. > >Has any Trident owner been able to solve these problems? > >Eric Smith > >Electrical Engineering Computer Group (416) 236-0908 >University of Toronto eric@eecg.toronto.edu > CompuServe: 72371,3015 >"Eesti vabaks" GEnie: E.SMITH29 I have a Trident 256k and an NEC/MultiSync 2A. I have found that the 800x600x16 mode flickers too much for prolonged use. Is this due to the monitor or lack of memory on the card? I used the tvga drivers from cica. - Kay
ernst_witter@eva.slu.se (11/28/90)
In article <1990Nov26.222456.24565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, eric@eecg.toronto.edu (Eric Smith) writes: > > I have the same hardware combination as you (MagicSync monitor > and Trident 8800-based VGA), and the same problems. The 800x600 > mode is severely compressed horizontally, and I have also found that > 640x480x256 mode under Win3 produces a scrambled picture (Edwin > Ng, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, reported the same problem), and the > 1024x768 mode flickers too much for prolonged use. I have tried > the drivers from cica as well as downloading directly from the > Trident BBS, but to no avail. > > Has any Trident owner been able to solve these problems? > No, I haven't been able to solve the problem, but have experienced much the same problem as described above. I first ascribed it to perhaps be due to my monitor (the flickering that is), but I don't have the same problem when I use the 800x600 or 1024x768 drivers for WP5.1. Compression of the screen does however occur at these resolutions, but I think that that is definitly an inevitable feature of most monitors. Ernst Witter
aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) (11/29/90)
In article <3958@mindlink.UUCP> a499@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) writes: >I have experienced the same problems, particularly the 256 color one. >That is most annoying as I can't use the board for what I bought it. >1024x768 seemed fine for me, except it is soooo slow it is not usuable. >Time for an ATI Wonder+... >Rob Does this mean that there is an 800x600x256 color driver for the TVGA out there? I saw a reference to it (commented out) in the .INI file for the drivers I have, but couldn't find the appropriate .drv file. Where can I find this beast? Actually, I haven't found the speed of the card slower than expected, although the only monitor I have access to that can do 1024x768 interlaced without causing a headache is a good ol' IBM 8514/a monitor... Aaron Wallace