vincet@mead.UUCP (Vince Tan) (03/09/90)
Does anyone use Western Digital 8514/A video board with ISC X windows 1.1? Does ISC X windows 1.1 driver support 1024x768 non-interlaced mode with 256 colors? I know that 8514/A driver is there but there's no information about how many colors. I want to buy a 8514/A video adaptor for my 386 system. Thanks in advance. --Vince
scottw@ico.isc.com (Scott Wiesner) (03/10/90)
From article <642@mead.UUCP>, by vincet@mead.UUCP (Vince Tan): > Does anyone use Western Digital 8514/A video board with ISC X windows > 1.1? Does ISC X windows 1.1 driver support 1024x768 non-interlaced > mode with 256 colors? I know that 8514/A driver is there but there's > no information about how many colors. I want to buy a 8514/A video > adaptor for my 386 system. The Western Digital (Paradise) 8514/A board works fine with the 1.1 release of Interactive's X product. While our driver was set up to run on an IBM 8514/A, which is interlaced only, Western Digital's board has a clever startup sequence which allows the board to run in 60 or 70 Hz non-interlaced mode with software (such as ours) that was designed to work interlaced. The current driver (as supplied in the 1.1 release) works at 256 colors only, requiring the memory expansion option. While it "sort of" works without the memory expansion, this is an unsupported capability that is known to have problems. A future release of the product will have full support for unexpanded boards running in 16 colors. Scott Wiesner Interactive Systems X Development Group