Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 14:46:38 -0600 From: Clifford T. Matthews To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: "S3 86C911" driver? Cc: Cotton Seed , Mat Hostetter Hi Folks, We're putting color support into Executor and the folks who are doing the color additions already have much of color running fine on their development system. They use the default driver and everything works fine. Executor/DOS-color doesn't work on *our* system. We have a Dell system with an "S3 86C911" based video card. We don't have much documentation on the card, but we do have a pamphlet called "Video Software Support Documentation Update" that talks about drivers for various popular programs (I guess different programs require different drivers -- yahoo). In the pamphlet is a table called "Graphics Modes" Resolutions and Hexadecimal Mode Number Video Mode Colors 300 x 200; 4 4h, 5h standard 320 x 200; 16 Dh standard 320 x 200; 256 13h standard 640 x 200; 2 6h standard ... 640 x 480; 16 12h standard 640 x 480; 256 69h, 101h extended ... 800 x 600; 256 6Bh, 103h extended ... 1024 x 768; 256 6Dh, 105h extended All the entries in the table with "extended" in the Video Mode column have a footnote that says "Requires video drivers". Nowhere do they appear to claim that they are SVGA compliant, only VGA compliant with the ability to do these other modes with the drivers that are supplied on their floppy. The experimental version of Executor that works on the development system with the default DJGPP driver pops the monitor into 800 x 600 ; 256 mode, which is a resolution or video card can trivially handle (we run it in 800 x 600 ; 65536 mode under NEXTSTEP all the time). So I'm guessing that 640 x 400 x 16 colors would work, but higher ones won't, without a special driver. Would any of the supplied go32 drivers support this video card? It strikes me as really weird that a LocalBus machine (i.e. a relatively new computer) wouldn't support SVGA, but I don't really know much about PCs. --Cliff