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In message <5d15o5$3s6$2@nargun.cc.uq.oz.au> - cs321509@student.uq.edu.au (Z)
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:>In <5cvp2g$5kh@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, khamann@primenet.com writes:
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:>[...HiColour modes with Tseng ET4000AX...]
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:>>I'm guessing here, so please don't get too mad if this doesn't
:>>work *grin*, but have you tried using the ET4000/w32,w32i,w32p
:>>driver to see if that would work?  If it doesn't, hitting alt f1
:>>when the block comes on in the upper right corner on bootup
:>>will allow you to switch back to vga and then you can install
:>>the original drivers.
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:>I use these drivers with my ET4000/w32p and they only offer 256-colour
:>modes up to 1024x768 even though my card and monitor are capable of
:>1280x1024, and HiColour modes at lower resolutions. So I doubt that
:>these would solve the original poster's problems.

Hmmm, until I changed motherboards I was running a Tseng ET4000/w32p based
Diamond VLB card and it ran OK at 1024x768x65536 @ 75Hz. I was running Warp 3
with the drivers in TSENGW32.ZIP (or DSK) from the IBM ftp site. The trick is
that you must have the DOS based utility used to set the refresh rates for
your card. For my Diamond Stealth 32 VLB it was called SETMODE.EXE. Run it in
a fullscreen DOS session and use it to define which modes you want your card
to run at and what refresh rates to do at each resolution. Then without
switching away from the f/s session run SVGA ON DOS to generate an
SVGADATA.DOS file and copy that over \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI (after saving it) and
then shutdown and reboot. My card would also do 800x600@16.7m and any other
resolution possible with 2Mb RAM on the board.

The Tseng provided drivers are *ancient* and only support 256 colours.



Trevor Hemsley
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)