jeanluc@coherent.com (Jean-Luc Brouillet) (09/19/89)
I want to use a 19" color monitor with Windows, hopefully at a resolution
of about 1000 x 800. Does anyone knows of a combination of monitor /
video card / driver that does the trick?
Thanks!
Jean-Luc Brouillet Coherent Thought Inc Palo Alto, CA
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INTERNET: coherent!jeanluc@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.netgupta-p@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Pankaj Gupta) (09/21/89)
In article <33910@coherent.coherent.com> jeanluc@coherent.com (Jean-Luc Brouillet) writes: >I want to use a 19" color monitor with Windows, hopefully at a resolution >of about 1000 x 800. Does anyone knows of a combination of monitor / >video card / driver that does the trick? I saw a demo of IBM's new 8514 Graphics Adapter. It has 1024x768 resolution and the demo looked pretty slick. We were told that the 8514 card is available for the time being for PS/2 model 50,55,70 and 80. I don't know if this 8514 card would work with a std. IBM VGA monitor or requires an autosync capable monitor. ..PJ
roberts@sunray.UUCP (Robert Stanley) (09/22/89)
In article <61647@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> P J Gupta <gupta-p@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >In article <33910@coherent.coherent.com> jeanluc@coherent.com > (Jean-Luc Brouillet) writes: >>I want to use a 19" color monitor with Windows, hopefully at a resolution >>of about 1000 x 800. Does anyone knows of a combination of monitor / >>video card / driver that does the trick? > >I saw a demo of IBM's new 8514 Graphics Adapter. It has 1024x768 resolution >and the demo looked pretty slick. We were told that the 8514 card is >available for the time being for PS/2 model 50,55,70 and 80. I don't >know if this 8514 card would work with a std. IBM VGA monitor or requires >an autosync capable monitor. The 8514/A board needs an 8514 monitor (or equivalent). The 8514 monitor is a 15" interlaced monitor, which doesn't do badly for the price. The 8514/A is actually a fairly impressive graphics card, but there is a truly woeful lack of technical information available. Microsoft have true 8514/A drivers available in Windows/286 version 2.10 and Windows/386 version 2.11. Both Microsoft and IBM production versions of OS/2 1.10 (Presentation Manager) support the 8514/A. If you don't have 8514/A drivers, you get a perfect IBM VGA in a larger than usual format; it's actually rather nice. Rumour has it that there is a new version in the works which will have a higher resolution than the current 1024 x 768 pixels, however I haven't seen it yet. The main advantage of the 8514/A is not so much the increased real-estate (although that is extremely nice), it's the powerful and reasonably well-thought-out set of on-board graphics functions which help off-load the main processor. We've been running one on a PS/2 Model 80 for just about a year, and have had no problems, other than the usual idiosyncrasies of IBM hardware and Microsoft software. Robert_S -- | _ \ / _ \ / __| Robert Stanley UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!roberts | |_> || |_| |\__ \ INET: roberts%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net |_| |_\|_| |_||___/ Voice: (613)738-1338 x6115 Cognos Inc., 3755 Riverside Drive, PO Box 9707, Ottawa, Ont K1G 3Z4, Canada
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (09/22/89)
>I saw a demo of IBM's new 8514 Graphics Adapter. It has 1024x768 resolution >and the demo looked pretty slick. Don't they all! But believing what a demo does might make you look like a baboon. (For the cognoscenti, the killer demo for IBM last REALLY successful graphics adapter, the Professional Graphics Controller, was a baboon.) >We were told that the 8514 card is >available for the time being for PS/2 model 50,55,70 and 80. I don't >know if this 8514 card would work with a std. IBM VGA monitor or requires >an autosync capable monitor. They require a dedicated monitor or some but not just any multisync. IBM's own is, as usual, among the worst. It is unusable with a white background. The 8514 is not setting the world on fire. For one thing, IBM won't release to anyone except Microsoft the specs, so there is no way to program it directly. Doug MCDonald