ignacij@orion (Ignacy Misztal) (05/28/91)
I am looking for a 800x600 or even 1024x768 dispay driver for ATI VGA card that was in my Gateway-2000 computer. The 800x600 driver for 1.2 was included but it does not display the top bars in 1.3. ===================================================================== Ignacy Misztal Internet:ignacij@orion.animal.uiuc.edu University of Illinois Bitnet: ignacy@uiucvmd 1207 W Gregory Dr. Phone: (217) 244-3164 Urbana IL 61801 =====================================================================
baer@uwovax.uwo.ca (05/29/91)
In article <ignacij.675448019@orion>, ignacij@orion (Ignacy Misztal) writes: > > I am looking for a 800x600 or even 1024x768 dispay driver for ATI VGA card > that was in my Gateway-2000 computer. The 800x600 driver for 1.2 was > included but it does not display the top bars in 1.3. > I believe you got the drivers for PM 1.1 -- they work, more or less, for 1.2. ATI promised OS/2 1.2 drivers last fall, but then didn't deliver. In Jan. they said the project was "up in the air", and that they might wait until OS/2 2.0 to do anything. Now, they say they are working on a 1.3 driver, but refuse to give a date [this latest piece of info. based on a response from ATI's tech. support line late last week]. I wouldn't hold my breath. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Baer, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5C2 Internet: BAER@UWO.CA Bitnet: BAER@UWOVAX
andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) (05/30/91)
Hmmm, this discussion leads me to wonder about the 8514/Ultra card from ATI. Their ad on page 106 of the May issue of _PC Magazine_ says the 8514/Ultra is register-compatible with IBM's 8514/A card and "software compatible" (what does that mean?) with XGA cards. If the bit about the 8514/A compatibility is true, does this mean I can pop one of these in an OS/2 system and count on IBM's 8514/A device driver working just fine with it? Anyone had any experience with it (under OS/2 or any other OS, for that matter)? Thanks, -- Andrew Ernest <andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US>
joeb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) (06/04/91)
In comp.os.os2.misc, andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) writes: | Hmmm, this discussion leads me to wonder about the 8514/Ultra card from | ATI. Their ad on page 106 of the May issue of _PC Magazine_ says the | 8514/Ultra is register-compatible with IBM's 8514/A card and "software | compatible" (what does that mean?) with XGA cards. If the bit about the | 8514/A compatibility is true, does this mean I can pop one of these in | an OS/2 system and count on IBM's 8514/A device driver working just fine | with it? Anyone had any experience with it (under OS/2 or any other OS, | for that matter)? Yes. I just bought the 8514/Ultra and an NEC 4D monitor. The standard OS/2 1.3 driver works fine. (I've even tried the OS/2 v2 beta, and it works as well.) ATI supplies a special "fast" Windows 3.0 driver, and another Windows driver which supports their anti-aliased fonts. Their fast driver is, indeed, faster than the standard Windows 8514 driver. (In fact, it's faster than the OS/2 driver, as well.) -- Joe B. #include <standard.disclaimer>
rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (06/04/91)
In article <1991May30.001531.104315@ramona.Cary.NC.US> andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) writes: >compatible" (what does that mean?) with XGA cards. If the bit about the >8514/A compatibility is true, does this mean I can pop one of these in >an OS/2 system and count on IBM's 8514/A device driver working just fine >with it? Anyone had any experience with it (under OS/2 or any other OS, >for that matter)? I have a Paradise 8514/A+ (*not* an ATI card) and it just works fine with the IBM 8514/A driver for OS/2 and the ATI card should do this too. A friend has such an ATI 8514 but did not yet test it with OS/2, only with Windows so far but it works well there. Kai Uwe Rommel /* Kai Uwe Rommel, Munich ----- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams