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Article #71706Re: VGA driver for portrait monitor
From: Donald R. Oddy
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <1i2ynDAEhenwEwFA@ch-w.demon.co.uk>
jc@ch-w.demon.co.uk "John Chapple" writes:
>In article <815431911snz@grove.demon.co.uk>, "Donald R. Oddy"
><donald@grove.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>These monitors usually came with their own video cards to allow the
>>use of portrait mode. A lot of those cards had windows drivers but
>>you would need to contact the manufacturer of the card and depending
>>on the age of the card you may find it does not work with the current
>>version of windows.
>The monitor came with a card that gave EGA drivers for Windows2! & I have
> contacted the
>card manufacturers who say they have no drivers for Win 3.1, however it can be
> used as a
>VGA monitor in portrait mode, & as VGA is a generally supported standard, I am
> hoping
>someone somewhere may have, or know where I can find *ANY* VGA PORTRAIT or A4
>drivers for Win 3.1 that I could try with my B&W A4 monitor, please .
>SVGA drivers are no good, of course
This does not make much sense to me. AFAIK there is no portrait VGA
standard (presumably 480 x 640). What they possibly mean is that the
standard mono VGA driver supplied with windows will work. Have you
tried it?
--
Donald Oddy
Grove Systems Ltd. 0161-224 4465
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,5f0a748c6bcf32e1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: "Donald R. Oddy" <donald@grove.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: VGA driver for portrait monitor Date: 1995/11/16 Message-ID: <816484614snz@grove.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119513436 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: grove.demon.co.uk references: <b0VzrCAHnejwEwgU@ch-w.demon.co.uk> <1i2ynDAEhenwEwFA@ch-w.demon.co.uk> organization: Grove Systems Ltd. reply-to: donald@grove.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc