Jeff, at 15:06 on Sun, Feb 26 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG>> Cirrus Logic 5428.

JG>> It's the drivers for that one that are supposed to be of the 
JG>> buggy lot. It's been recommended that people use the 5426 or 
JG>> 5424 (??) drivers instead if you are experiencing any problems.

BG> Really?  I thought the ET-4000 W32i drivers were the buggy ones.  
BG> I've certainly seen nothing to suggest that the Cirrus drivers 
BG> are causing problems, and I'm running the 5428 chipset drivers 
BG> too.  So far, they've been nothing less than superb.

JG> Yeah, the ET4000/W?? series are buggy as well.

New drivers are now available for those using that card though.

JG> From what I've read about the problems, it seems that the Cirrus 
JG> ones can cause underlining of characters when using ZOC but the 
JG> drivers are the ones at fault.

Really?  Not here it doesn't.  I'm using use ZOC 2.01 BTW.  |-)

JG> The ET4000 drivers cause memory leakage and cause the swapfile to 
JG> continue to grow. These drivers can also cause the loss of data 
JG> when downloading files! Now that is weird but it's happened to 
JG> enough people that it's known to be the drivers.

Yeah, it's become quite well-documented just lately.  Just as well the
Cirrus was half the price then isn't it?  Especially as the ET4000/W32n
series was my initial preference.  Glad I bought the CL-5428 though, as it
has been superb, and is extremely fast.  Indeed, David and Jill were here
yesterday, and they both commented on how fast the huge GIFs were drawing
in PMJpeg (in a window too, I might add). 

JG> You don't use a PM app for comms do you?

Rarely (if I need a file, I freq it with Bink as a rule), but I have both
PMComm 2.0 (commercial) and ZOC 2.01 (shareware), and neither of these has
exhibited any memory or video problems.  Just lucky I guess.  |-)

Regards, Bill
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