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Re: Tseng ET4000AX and HiColor modes.

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From: bruce
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 00:00
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>>Could anyone shed any light on how I might get access to the 15/16 bit
>>colour depths which my card supports but which are not available to me
>>at present.  (Using Warp v3.0)
>
>
>I've been trying to do the same thing since last Aug. I've had
>absolutely no luck finding drivers. So far I've settled for 15 bit
>color in WINOS2 full screen sessions only by replacing the
>fdisplay.drv driver with the Tseng drivers. Other than that, I've got
>a Cirrus 5429 and a Trident 9440 as replacements for the Tseng -
>neither of which work with my motherboard.

Just last week I _finally_ got 65535 colours in with my Et4000 PCI card. First you 
must have 2meg or RAM on the video card.

Also, it seems that the SVGA.EXE program has a slight bug in it if you card has a
CH8398_RGB from Chrontel ram dac on it.

Load SVGA.EXE in a hex editor (make a backup copy first) and search for the
string "B8 09 00 C9" (there hould only be one) and change it to "B8 07 00 C9".

Run svga from dos ot recreate the 

Worked for me...
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From: bruce@omen.com.au
Subject: Re: Tseng ET4000AX and HiColor modes.
Date: 1997/02/02
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