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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] VGA Hell, what else?!
Date: Thu,  7 Dec 2000 10:23:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001207102332.A20270@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)

I'm suffering from dreadful flicker trying to use 1024x768x8 on a
multisync65, mostly because 1024x768x8i is utterly broken.  I'm
using what seems an old S3Virge/Diamond Stealth Pro.

I've hacked bits of "vga", if only to see what would happen, but
the results have been unpromising, no doubt because I've been using
some old ET 4000 documentation, inappropriate to the task.

So, two things: does anyone know where I can find S3 docs and would
it help any if I went to the trouble of relabelling all the register
numbers with what cobol programmers used to call "figurative
constants" (should that be all capitals, perhaps?) in the
sys/src/cmd/aux/vga directory?  I'm half hoping for a resounding
"no" to the second question :-)

++L


             reply	other threads:[~2000-12-07  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-07  8:23 Lucio De Re [this message]
2000-12-07  9:56 forsyth
2000-12-07 22:55 ` George Michaelson
2000-12-08  2:18 jmk
2000-12-08  2:28 ` George Michaelson
2000-12-08  4:03   ` Lucio De Re
2000-12-08  7:10     ` Quinn Dunkan
2000-12-08  4:25 jmk
2000-12-08  4:31 ` George Michaelson
2000-12-08  4:53 jmk
2000-12-08  7:17 Russ Cox
2000-12-08  7:22 Russ Cox
2000-12-08  9:17 ` George Michaelson
2000-12-08  8:44 nigel
2000-12-08 14:34 Richard Miller

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