Date:	Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:19:37 +1200 (NZST)
From:	Michael Snowden <mss14 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
Subject:	a better screen display for DOS?
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<200209051219.AAA24950@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

                               2002 September 5
                             Sumner, New Zealand


opendos AT delorie DOT com

I have recently assembled a computer (kitset) and am running it with
two large Seagate hard disks of 80 gigabytes each and heaps of
memory. The clock speed is 1.5 gigahertz. One hard disk is configured
with Linux SuSE 8.0 Professional, and the other with DOS 7.0 (Windows
98 DOS). I use both operating systems only in text mode. Rarely
graphics. The monitor is a Philips Light Frame 1073B

I am having a serious problem in getting a good crisp display using
DOS. The figures look like the ones we had in the mid-80s, i.e., each
character is composed of numerous little horizontal parallel lines.
I suspect the video card is the source of the problem, not the
monitor, because the display is alright when used with the Linux hard
disk. The video card is a 32 Mb AGP TNT-2 M64.

Which video card should I try to get a sharp text display for DOS and
yet will still work with Linux?

                               Michael Snowden
                        mss14 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz

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