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["Glenn Gilbreath Jr." <wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi List!
This email was sent to me for forwarding to the group...I only have
one SVGA adapter that offered any problems, and it was also
a Matrox based, but older, on the Compaq Pentium 75 I rebuilt
a couple of years ago (onboard video)...the solution I used was
to load the SVGA drivers for the Matrox stuff that I found at the
old Compaq web site (now part of HP???), use the Graphic
Setup app in "My Applications" page of Arachne...I almost 
always use 640x480 256 colors...you don't get as many items
on a page, BUT it does seem more "universally compatible".
C U L8R!
Wiz  <{;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:        Joe da Silva [SMTP:Joe.daSilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:        Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:04 PM
> To:        ArachneDevelopment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:        [ArachneDevelopment] SVGA compatibility question
> 
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just wondering, does anyone else have an SVGA card
> that isn't 100% compatible with Arachne? For example,
> I have a Matrox Millenium II AGP card that doesn't
> work properly at 800*600 resolutions (BTW, I suspect
> the PCI version of this particular card would also
> have the same problem).
> 
> I will shortly have one or two test cores available,
> using my modified Lopif graphics library that fixes
> the above compatibility problem, so it would be
> interesting to see if this helped with any other
> "problem" (VESA) SVGA cards.
> 
> Also, if you are using something unusual, like EGA,
> it would be useful to test that my modifications
> don't "break" anything with such (non-VESA) cards
> (I don't have any such cards to test for this).
> 
> Joe.
> 
Glenn Gilbreath, Jr.
Wizard57M
http://www.geocities.com/wizard57m/index.html


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