Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:19:37 +1200 (NZST) From: Michael Snowden 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