OT: A call to arms (sort of) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Jul 1999

The old OrCAD electronics drafting software came with a tool which pretty
automatically generated an 800x600 driver for most any available card of the
day.  This suggests that a "generic" driver may be available.  My experience
with the 1Kx768 types has been less encouraging, however.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin &lt;max82(a)surfree.com...

To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu...
  Date: Monday, July
05, 1999 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: OT: A call to arms (sort of)

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 On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
 Actually, if you want to do anything beyond plain
VGA then you do start
to have problems. This is what started this discussion - the fact that
many modern video cards are _not_ properly documented. 
What worries me even more is that there is no universal SVGA standard, as
there is with VGA. S3 requires a different driver than Trident 9400, while
the results are indistinguishable for me.

--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
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