edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Ng) (10/30/90)
I have a TVGA card with 512K ram which no drivers seem to be able to set to 640x480 256 colours. It has a Trident TVGA BIOS C3-129 Ver 1.01 dated 22-May-89. I have been using it for 6 months for wordprocessing (50 lines) on a 386SX with 2MB ram running on AMI 386 bios (1989). Now I have started using Windows 3.0 and I just get a screenful of green lines when I configure with tvgawin3 drivers recently posted on comp.binaries.ibm.pc. That is only with 640x480 256 colour mode. The other drivers for 16 colour 800x600 and 1024x768 worked perfectly! I have also tried using CSHOW, VPIC & VUIMG to view gifs in hires mode and got even worse results except for CSHOW. CSHOW is able to display 640x480 (256C) in its standard mode but not when I use Trident or any other video drivers. VPIC and VUIMG only works in the standard VGA 300x200 (256C). All the supplied drivers can't work at all in ANY extended VGA mode. I've tried everything I can think of and just can't get it to work. Even using PICEM to set the video mode numbers according to the manual can't get it to work. The screen just changes to the background colour of the gif picture but remains in text mode. My dealer isn't any help at all and I've run out of ideas. So PLEASE if anyone can help, I'll really appreciate it. I prefer replies by email but post if you want. I'll summarise if there are others with a similar problem. Thanks in advance. -------------------------------------------------------- * Edwin Ng * * E&E Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand * * E-mail: edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz * --------------------------------------------------------
vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal) (11/01/90)
In article <1990Oct30.062138.719@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Ng) writes:
! I have a TVGA card with 512K ram which no drivers seem to be able to
! set to 640x480 256 colours.
!
! It has a Trident TVGA BIOS C3-129 Ver 1.01 dated 22-May-89. I have
! been using it for 6 months for wordprocessing (50 lines) on a 386SX
! with 2MB ram running on AMI 386 bios (1989). Now I have started using
! Windows 3.0 and I just get a screenful of green lines when I configure
! with tvgawin3 drivers recently posted on comp.binaries.ibm.pc. That
! is only with 640x480 256 colour mode. The other drivers for 16 colour
! 800x600 and 1024x768 worked perfectly!
!
! I have also tried using CSHOW, VPIC & VUIMG to view gifs in hires mode
! and got even worse results except for CSHOW. CSHOW is able to display
! 640x480 (256C) in its standard mode but not when I use Trident or any
! other video drivers. VPIC and VUIMG only works in the standard VGA
! 300x200 (256C). All the supplied drivers can't work at all in ANY
! extended VGA mode.
If the card comes with VESA SuperVGA support, try using the VESA
driver that comes with VUIMAGE Version 2.62 or later.
Venu P. Gopal UUCP: ..!att!cbnewsc!vgopal Internet: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com