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Re: Trident VGA-256

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From: Timothy F. Sipples
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:24
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In article <1992Sep11.094020.12243@ifi.unizh.ch> caliaro@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Aurelio Caliaro) writes:
>
>The Trident 640x480x256 colors only works with 1 MB of VGA memory. The README-
>File, that was distributed with it, said that Trident is working on it, so
>that it can work with 512k. Does someone know if that problem is already
>solved and if the new driver was published, or if it is better to buy those
>512k to add onto the card?

The problem has been solved.  I believe the patch file is called
trid_fix.zoo, and it is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  It consists of a new OS2LDR file.

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Subject: Re: Trident VGA-256
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