Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE

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From: Hello
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:18

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Dirk Ohme <dohme@cpu3> wrote:

>> Apparently a bug in Microsoft's S3 video card driver causes a
>> device on COM4 to work incorrectly.

>That's wrong! It's not a bug in the software but a hardware problem with 
>S3-based graphics adapters. On ISA and ISA-like behaving busses the I/O 
>address space is limited to 12 address bits. S3-chips have a I/O port 
>that conflicts with COM4 on such systems, but would not collide to 
>systems with full 16 bit I/O address space like MCA (micro channel 
>architecture).

And not with all S3 card. I have 4 series and 2 // in my computer and
it work. Just a thing, retailer told me, my S3 with 4Mo can have 16M
colors in 1200*1024. I still wait for a S3 driver wich support this
resolution !
Happy 
New              opworld@worldnet.fr
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From: opworld@worldnet.fr (Hello)
Newsgroups: tcp.support,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sportster, WIN95 and ASUS P55TP4XE
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:18:54 GMT
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