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In article <9757@ubc-cs.UUCP> jalbert@cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert) writes:
>Richard mentioned in his last message that CSHOW82 and VPIC29 supported the
>TVGA. Well, I tried both in 640*400*256 on my TVGA (8800CS chip) and they don't
>seem to work. The screen fills with the picture, but it is strangely mixed. It's

Maybe your graphic card doesn't have enough memory for showing a
picture of that resolution. You should have 512kB of memory to see
(non-emulated) pictures of that resolution.

>like if you had 9 small images all intermixed over the screen. I tried the
>Trident generic driver and the 8900 driver with no difference. My screen can
>take 640*400*16 and 640*480*16 and since it's analog, I figured it should take

I have those 9 vibrating images all the time! :-( What a
disappointment to buy a new card and see that it doesn't work!

> 640*400*256. The salesman did tell me so. So any hints as to what might be
> wrong? Are there a zillion Trident chips? I'm just curious. Thanks. Franky

Never believe what salesmen tell you! Your card might be
malfunctioning. And according to my knowledgement there are zillions
of Trident TVGAs around!

BTW, the newest version of VPIC is vpic30 - also available in
SIMTEL20, nic.funet.fi etc.
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