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Any help would be appreciated.

- Pratik Mukherjee
  Laboratory of Biophysics
  The Rockefeller University

Quote:>Join the club, there's at lesat six or seven of us with the same problem
>!!! Has anyone tried teh non-beta s3_16m drivers ??? Or has anyone

I didn't do anything special to set it up. Just followed the supplied
instructions and it works perfectly. It also worked well with the beta
drivers, though the release drivers fix some problems in other modes that
I was having with the beta's.

I set the card up using the stlmode utility, before installing the S3
drivers. If you have done this, then I don't know why it's not working
for you people.

: Does anyone know if a Diamond Stealth Pro with 2MB VRAM will support 1280x
: 1024x256 resolution at 60 Hz using the IBM S3-16M display drivers for OS/2?
: I tried this using a fixed-frequency Sony 19" monitor which only supports
: this resolution, and it did not sync when the WPS came up. The monitor does
: sync at this resolution and frame rate, however, when using the STLMODE
: setup utility for the Stealth Pro.

I would also love to know what mode the new S3 drivers use at
1280x1024x8.  I am having a hard time convincing myself that my
display is running at 60 Hz non-interlaced which my monitor does
without pain to the eyes inside STLMODE with it's mostly black
background.

Robert.
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- Pratik Mukherjee
  Laboratory of Biophysics
  The Rockefeller University

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                             Phil Stimson, JPL

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: Yes, I have recently tried the release-level s3_16m drivers, with the same
: result. I think I have narrowed the problem down to creating the right
: SVGADATA file with the SVGA ON command.  I think this needs to be done under
: native DOS since WPS won't sync on the monitor, but I have an all-HPFS drive.
: Also SVGA.EXE doesn't seem to run from a floppy.  I plan to continue working
: on this when I have the time, but right now I am using smaller multi-sync
: monitors instead.

I have some good news and bad news regarding my experiences with the new
drivers and SVGA application.  The good news is that the SVGADATA.PMI file
generated under DOS (SVGA ON DOS) and by the driver installation is FINALLY
identical except for comments.  The bad news is that I still can't run SVGA
inside an OS/2 full-screen DOS session after driver installation without
bringing down the whole system.

With regards to the refresh rate, I haven't noticed a change from the beta.
I still have a hard time believing my monitor is being driven at 60 Hz
(at 1280x1024) given the severe eye pain I endure when bright images are
displayed.  The first poster's comment about PM not being able to sync to
his fixed frequency monitor seems to confirm this.

Robert.
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