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From: Richard Bywater
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00

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I've got an S3 chip video card (S3 Trio64+) so I thought I could use the 
S3 setting with the SVGALIB I have (from the November 1995 Infomagic 
slackware CD - Not sure which version exactly).  However when I use this 
setting, it refuses to do 640x480x256 (highest is 640x480x2 and 
320x160x256 or something like that) and when I use any of the other 
settings, it will display it correctly (I'm using Vgatest) but when it 
restores the screen, it goes all flickery and the text goes all over the 
place.  The only way to get out of this is to reboot my machine...

Help! :-)

Cheers.

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