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Re: Cirrus Logic drivers V1.41 are faulty

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From: Emmanuel Bremeersch
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 10:41
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In article <2n353r$f2e@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, lana@meinesz.mit.edu (Svetlana Panasyuk) writes:
> David Robert Downs (drdowns@bach.udel.edu) wrote:
> 
> :   1.	SetRes says "The graphics adapter does not have enough memory to
> :   	support the custom display driver.  Previous custom display driver
> :   	installation options will be ignored."  Then, only 640 x 480 by 16 is
> :   	choosable.  I am running in 1024 x 768 by 256! 
> 
> I got the same problem with BOCA Research CL5428-based card. As far as
> I remember the problem was with memory manager, probably QEMM 7.0? or
> it's module QDPMI ( or it was NetRoom ? - I've been spending a lot of
> time playing with managers ). Try to remove your memory manager (
> don't forget put HIMEM.SYS instead ) and see if it helps. I switched
> to 386MAX quite a while ago and never had this problem again ( but,
> well, few others instead :-).
> 
> Regards,
> Svetlana.

I have the same problem with QEMM7,

It appears when you optimize your memory with the option that
allows you to free memory from the video-card memory. (Sorry for
the explanation, I don't remember the precise name of the options!)

Otherwise, no problems.

No idea for the second point (problem with Word6).

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Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic drivers V1.41 are faulty
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