janeri@Lise.Unit.NO (Jan Eri) (04/21/91)
I am currently testing Tseng Labs beta versions of their OS/2 1.2/1.3 drivers (800*600*16 and 1024*768*16). The drivers seems to work ok, if anybody are interested please mail me. If there are sufficient interest I will post the drivers to "nic.funet.fi" (128.214.6.100). Jan Eri - - - The Norwegian Institute of Technology janrei@lise.unit.no
GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr21.120356.17547@ugle.unit.no>, janeri@Lise.Unit.NO (Jan Eri) writes: > >I am currently testing Tseng Labs beta versions of their OS/2 1.2/1.3 >drivers (800*600*16 and 1024*768*16). The drivers seems to work ok, Jan, Which chip(s) are the drivers for? 3000 (e.g. Orchid Prodesigner), 4000 (e.g. Orchid Prodesigner II), or other? Thanks, Sandy Rockowitz gd.sar@forsythe.stanford.edu
rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (04/23/91)
>In article <1991Apr21.120356.17547@ugle.unit.no>, >janeri@Lise.Unit.NO (Jan Eri) writes: >> >>I am currently testing Tseng Labs beta versions of their OS/2 1.2/1.3 >>drivers (800*600*16 and 1024*768*16). The drivers seems to work ok, I think many are interested in this drivers. Could you make them available for others, for example, by submitting to comp.binaries.os2? Although I have already switched to a Paradise 8514/A, I would like to get them. It would make it easier to propose customers to switch towards OS/2 if they could get high resolution screen drivers. And Tseng 4k boards with 1M RAM are really cheap now. During the past few weeks I got Paradise VGA drivers for 1.2. I have another machine with a PVGA-1024 and I tested these drivers. They work well with 1.3 except for a few problems: The three drivers (800x600x16, 1024x768x16 and 640x480x256) come with four additional DLL's. One of them is specifically for the 640x480x256 driver (WDINIT.DLL). It needs IOPL so WDINIT has to be added to the IOPL= statement in CONFIG.SYS. The other three DLL's replace standard DLL's of OS/2. BVHWND.DLL should not be used. Use the DLL of this name that comes with 1.3 instead. Otherwise the machine hangs when calling the "Font size" command from the system menu of VIO windows. Do also not use BVHVGA.DLL from Paradise. When using it, I was unable to switch to the DOS box and the machine hung. When ignoring all three of the DLL's (the third one replaces BVHINIT.DLL), you get a reall mess on the screen when switching back to the PM screen from the DOS box. Replacing BVHINIT.DLL by the Paradise-supplied version reduced this garbage a lot (although it is still there). So far my experiences with this drivers. Everything else works fine. Icons are coloured and the correct size. A drawback of the highres drivers is, that the font size command for VIO windows offers only 8x8 and 14x8 where the 8514/A driver offers a lot more of resolutions. If anyone is interested in the drivers, I would submit them to comp.binaries.os2. 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 (MS)