dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) (07/27/90)
OKay, ignorant me didn't pay attention to the postings about the Trident drivers for Windows 3.0. Now I just bought some more memory and plunked the $50 for the upgrade and am stuck with std vga drivers. I have a Platinum VGA card with Trident chipset, 512k and 1024x768x16, 640,480,256, etc. How can I get the drivers for Windows 3.0? Please E-mail the responses. Thanks. -- Dennis Lou Disclaimer: I don't use lame disks. dlou@dino.ucsd.edu "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" [backbone]!ucsd!dino!dlou "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) (08/08/90)
hmmm, I included a bogus newsgroup in the list and it returned my article.... I am not sure whether the other groups made it, so I'll repost.,.. ------------ A couple weeks ago, I posted a request for the Trident drivers for MS-Windows 3.0. Too many responded for me to get back to all of you, so here's the post. Only the last two are interesting... From dchun%aludra.usc.edu@usc.edu Fri Jul 27 06:11:34 1990 In article <12057@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> you write: >How can I get the drivers for Windows 3.0? > >Please E-mail the responses. Thanks. ...if you get drivers, please email to me...thanks! ...dale From paul@cs.utexas.edu Fri Jul 27 13:14:46 1990 I am also looking for drivers (for both Window 3.0 and X on Unix) for my trident board. I'll greatly appreciate any information you received from the net. supoj From hp-sdd!uunet.UU.NET!p4tustin!carl@ucsd.edu Tue Jul 31 13:37:43 1990 In article <12057@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> you write: > >OKay, ignorant me didn't pay attention to the postings about the >Trident drivers for Windows 3.0. Now I just bought some more memory >and plunked the $50 for the upgrade and am stuck with std vga drivers. > >I have a Platinum VGA card with Trident chipset, 512k and >1024x768x16, 640,480,256, etc. > >How can I get the drivers for Windows 3.0? > >Please E-mail the responses. Thanks. Dennis, I'm new to the net and didn't see the previous postings. If you get an answer please forward the particulars to me so I can get those drivers. Thanks, Carl From metaware!metaware!johnv@uunet.UU.NET Tue Jul 31 14:36:10 1990 Perhaps you could bounce me a copy o whatever you get. Thanks. johnv@metaware.com From 4stringr@portia.stanford.edu Fri Jul 27 19:42:14 1990 In article <12057@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> you write: > >OKay, ignorant me didn't pay attention to the postings about the >Trident drivers for Windows 3.0. Now I just bought some more memory >and plunked the $50 for the upgrade and am stuck with std vga drivers. > >I have a Platinum VGA card with Trident chipset, 512k and >1024x768x16, 640,480,256, etc. > >How can I get the drivers for Windows 3.0? > >Please E-mail the responses. Thanks. I think I saw those on Cica.cica.indiana.edu -Ted Oh yeah, in the pub/pc/win3 directory From KTK-VK@FINOU.BITNET Sun Jul 29 07:30:28 1990 You may have heard that the Trident policy as to the distribution method of their new drivers is somewhat unclear. They wrote to me in June that the drivers should be ready by the end of June (obviously they weren't) and that owners of non-Trident manufactured cards with Trident chip sets should pay 30 dollars for the upgrade. I have seen more recent rumours that anyone who received the new drivers would be allowed to distribute them via FTP sites. Anyway, it looks very obvious to me that the drivers are not ready yet anyway. If you have any more recent information, I would be interested to know and if you actually manage to get the drivers... From pasanen@fuug.fi Mon Jul 30 02:54:44 1990 I'm looking for those drivers too, so would you please forward the information how to get them to me. (ftp address is enough). Thanks, Harri Pasanen -- Dennis Lou Disclaimer: I don't use lame disks. dlou@dino.ucsd.edu "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" [backbone]!ucsd!dino!dlou "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
dhf@linus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) (08/08/90)
. The drivers are available on CompuServe, as file V2KW30.LZH (I think that's right) in the non-MS drivers library in the MSWIN forum. To unpack it, you'll need LHARC (available as LH113C.EXE, self-unpacking; to locate it, GO IBMFF to run the IBM File Finder). I downloaded, unpacked and installed the 800*600*16 driver last night (I'm running a TVGA with 256k) and it really makes a difference. I can now get 80 columns of text on the screen without maximizing the window. The Windows SETUP needs all the unpacked files in a single directory. I copied them to a diskette for my B: drive, and gave SETUP the path, but when it went to actually copy the files, it insisted on trying to read the A: drive. So I copied again to a floppy and stuck it in A: and SETUP was happy. Then it told me I needed to add DRIVER=EGA.DRV to my CONFIG.SYS, but when I went to reboot, EGA.DRV was bad/missing. Well, it turns out there's no EGA.* anywhere in my Windows directory or on the Windows installation disks, so I deleted that line, rebooted again and all was well. Happy downloading!
dhf@linus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) (08/09/90)
. As I mentioned a few articles back, the drivers are available in the MSWIN forum on CompuServe. I'm sure many people would be grateful if someone could make the file available from an FTP site. I don't have access from here, or if I do, then I don't know the procedure (OK, so flame me). I've already had email from people asking me to mail them the files, and while I don't mind helping individuals, I'd rather see something done that would benefit the greatest number through a single effort, before I start mailing. FTP site managers, here's your chance to do a good deed! -dhf
hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) (08/12/90)
In article <116435@linus.mitre.org> dhf@linus.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes: >. The drivers are available on CompuServe, as file V2KW30.LZH (I think >that's right) in the non-MS drivers library in the MSWIN forum. To unpack >it, you'll need LHARC (available as LH113C.EXE, self-unpacking; to locate >it, GO IBMFF to run the IBM File Finder). Come on, PLLLEAASE make them available for ftp and quick. If they are on Compuserve they can be on Internet as well. So that fellow who tried to restrict them for Trident BBS was wrong (IMHO). -- == Harri Valkama ============================================================== | harri.valkama@wmac00.uwasa.fi hv@uwasa.fi hv@flame.uwasa.fi hv@nic.funet.fi | | University of Vaasa, PO BOX 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (fax: +358 61 248465) | = Moderating at chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) ==