jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel) (02/26/91)
> > So which is the best ET4000 card? (And what's a good price on an 8514 card > for comparison?) > UNIX Users! Watch out for the Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA card. This is an ET4000 card with some special speed enhancements. It is a fantastic card, but with a BIG SNAG: the monitor configuration defaults to "IBM 8514" upon bootup, and can only be changed by the supplied DOS-based program VMODE.COM. I use SCO ODT, and since the card thinks it's connected to an 8514, I can only use 800x600 resolution at a 56Hz refresh rate, even though it's capable of 60Hz and 72Hz. Under DOS, I set the monitor to "Sony 1304" and away I go, but no such capability under UNIX. When oh when will hardware vendors realize that DOS is not the ONE TRUE OS? By the way, is it possible, under SCO 3.2.1 (ODT OS), to access video ports without writing a device driver? How does Xsight do it? -- +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | POLYGEN CORPORATION | When I was young, I had to walk | | Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA | to school and back every day -- | | ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175 | 20 miles, uphill both ways. | +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry | | jerry@polygen.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (02/28/91)
In article <990@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Sheckel) writes: >BIG SNAG: the monitor configuration defaults to "IBM 8514" upon bootup, and >can only be changed by the supplied DOS-based program VMODE.COM. So tell the vendor you want source code to VMODE.COM or your money back since the card is not usable to you. -- John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)
scotte@applix.com (Scott Evernden) (02/28/91)
In article <3305@kksys.mn.org> gk@kksys.mn.org (Greg Kemnitz) writes: >In article <3221@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >|In article <22110@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastdd@prism.gatech.EDU (David Preston Dykes) writes: ... All about inexpensive ET4000 cards and where to get... This weekend at a computer flea, I picked up a "generic" "Tseng labs" SVGA card. ET4000 and 1 meg ram for $150. (AGE Computer, Flushing, N.Y.). I have compared it to my ProDesigner II and it seems more or less identical. (although it's a smaller board missing all the crystal cans on the PD2). It's speed is the same. Under SVr4 X Windows, it works like the PD2 with the sigma/h evgainit setting. The fonts even dissolve under sysadm FMLI the same as the PD2, so it's the same, I guess. (does anyone understand this font prob??). Under Windows 3.0, however, a DOS shell comes up in GREEK with a screen full of garbage. So I returned it. But if you don't do DOS, then... -scott