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Re: VGA driver for portrait monitor

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From: Donald R. Oddy
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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From: "Donald R. Oddy" <donald@grove.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: VGA driver for portrait monitor
Date: 1995/11/16
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