On (04 May 97) Larry Evans wrote to Stephen Haffly...
Hi Larry,
 LE> AMD K5 PR166 processor
 LE> Generic motherboard, soon to be an ASUS P55T2P4 Rev3.10
 LE> 64 MB RAM EDO
 LE> Microsoft BussMouse with the Intel Inport card (ISA)
 LE> DTC 3130 SCSI-2 controller
 LE> SB 16 MCD audio card
 LE> Matrox Millennium 4 Mb video w/WRAM
 LE> Thats enough pertinent data I think, the rest is fluff and drives.
I am not familiar with some of the equipment.  It could have some
interactions.  I have an old InPort card.  It only uses limited
interrupts.  You don't have it sharing one with your sound card, for
example, do you?  That certainly would cause problems.
 LE> I have it set for the standard 640 x 480 16 color. Is that patch I saw
 LE> for 256 color the one I need to make the leap?
Exactly.  It won't work with every card though.  The card has to support
VESA modes in hardware.  For example, an older Trident 8900C card won't
support the higher color mode in anything but 1024x768, which makes
things just too small for my eyes when viewed on a 15 inch monitor.  If
I had a larger one, then it would be OK.  In 800x600, I can only get 16
colors.  OTOH, with the Cirrus Logic card, I can get the higher colors
in all video modes, but have the swapping problem.
 LE> Only one way to find out, tell me how you set up for 256 color and
 LE> I'll give it a whirl.
Let me know what you find out.
TTYL,
Stephen
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