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In article <1993Jan1.163930.3302@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>, duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall) writes:
|> Boon-Lock Yeo (yeo@thoth.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
|> : 
|> : Hi, I tried to run win3.1 using 800x600 16 color mode (setup
|> : with supervga.drv). Everything is fine until I tried to run
|> : msdos-prompt from window. It switches fine to text mode; when I tried
|> : to get back to window, the screen messed up. Even if I tried to
|> : run msdos-prompt in window mode, the screen still messed up.
|> : 
|> : I wonder it there is any setup I am missing, or is it the some problem
|> : with the hardware (I have a supervga card 512K ram and a supervga monitor)
|> 

Are you using a Trident board? I have a Trident 8900C SVGA board and I had EXACTLY this
problem. Trident have produced some Windows 3.1 drivers that don't give this problem.

In the docs that come with the Trident drivers, they suggest trying the Microsoft driver, and
if you have the switching problem, then use the Trident one.

The Trident drivers DON'T work with graphics in DOS boxes, unlike the Microsoft driver, but
this doesn't seem a great loss (to me at least) as it is so slow as to be almost unusable.

Using a Dell 433DE the Microsoft driver works ok.

The Trident drivers are available by FTP, but I can't remember exactly where.

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