From:	rjhe AT oce DOT nl (Rob Hegt)
To:	Lars Jonas Olsson <ljo AT murphy DOT EEAP DOT CWRU DOT Edu>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Trident (89 ?) vga driver
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 92 08:12:06 +0100
Status:	O

In message <9203081745 DOT AA04592 AT murphy DOT EEAP DOT CWRU DOT Edu> you write:
> I have a taiwanese no-name Trident 1MB card. Using this card and vga or 
>et3000 driver I can display in 320x200 graphics, but with trident or tridnt89 
>drivers the screen goes blank when trying to run the same program (only 
>changing the GO32 environment variable between trials). The program asks for 
>default graphics mode. I have tried 320x200, 640x480, and 800x600 modes.
>Sometimes the screen returns to mode 80 prompt after a while and other times
>I have to reset.
>
> Has anyone had success in using Trident based cards for higher than 320x200
>resolution graphics? Is there some inherent problem with Trident that makes
>it impossible to use?
>
>	Jonas Olsson
>	ljo AT murphy DOT eeap DOT cwru DOT edu
>
>Card specifics: SVGA chip: TVGA8900C
>                Mem:       1MB
>                BIOS:      Quadtel tvga8900 ver 02.11 h
>	        Model/SN:  PIC S/N 0172829

Some time ago I asked the same question, and DJ replied, that the Trident
cards cause a lot of problems. He said the best remedy would be to buy
another card. Some days later I read somewhere on the news, that someone
here in the Netherlands had a driver for the Trident card that worked. As
you may expect, I sent him a mail and asked him for his driver, but I have
not heard of him (yet?).
In his news message he told something about that he had the original driver,
the one DJ's was based upon. Perhaps that is the way to go?

DJ, is there such a thing as an 'original' Trident driver, which was the base
for your driver? Can you tell us poor Trident-owners where to get it?

Thanks,
Rob Hegt

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