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In article <1993Jan6.121325.15111@titan.inmos.co.uk>, jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp) writes:
|> 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
                                                                              ^^^^^^^

I should have said, SIMILAR. I couldn't switch from 'normal' windows, to running a DOS box in
full screen mode, as the screen was completely screwed up. It looked like the monitor was not
locking on to the video output properly.

|> 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.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jeremy Thorp, INMOS Ltd, 	|	jeremy@inmos.com
|> 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, 	|	jeremy@inmos.co.uk
|> Bristol, BS12 4SQ, UK.		|	
|> Tel.  +44 454 616616    Fax. +44 454 617910
|> The above is the personal opinion of the author,
|> and does not necessarily reflect INMOS policy.

-- 
Jeremy Thorp, INMOS Ltd, 	|	jeremy@inmos.com
1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, 	|	jeremy@inmos.co.uk
Bristol, BS12 4SQ, UK.		|	
Tel.  +44 454 616616    Fax. +44 454 617910
The above is the personal opinion of the author,
and does not necessarily reflect INMOS policy.