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One other advantage of 16-bit is that you can use the font smoothing add-on from MS, w95gray.exe. Haven't tried it on my 701 yet. So if you set the resolution higher, you can do hardware pans, i.e. when the mouse or cursor moves near or off the edge of the screen, the driver shows more of the screen? Ciao, Tom _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FROM:Tom Trottier, MBA Senior Technical Architect SHL Systemhouse Ltd. Ottawa Global Development Centre 50 O'Connor St. Suite 501, Ottawa K1P 6L2 Canada +1 613 236-6604x5539 fax 232-5182 ttrottier@shl.com ---------- From: Dale Chao[SMTP:geige@sprintmail.com] Sent: 1997 July 3 - Thursday 10:22 To: Peter Lewis; THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: video questions redux Hi, My comments... Actually, I have a 701CS (dual-scan) and do notice quite a bit of difference between 256-color and 16-bit (64k) on my screen. Since I use a picture of my dog as my wallpaper, the difference is immediately evident when switching color depths. It's true that many (if not most) apps are use 256-color icons, so you may not notice any difference there. However, if you fire up Communicator and switch, you'll see differences in the toolbar. I guess it comes down to how you use your machine, whether it's worth it. Having been alerted by another user on the list, I went to the Chips & Technology site and picked up the latest Win95 driver for 65545. Combining this with the generic Super VGA 1024x768 monitor driver, my monitor is behaving quite nicely. One advantage is that the QuickRes tray applet (or the checkbox in the display settings if you're using OSR2) works properly, displaying the correct choices for display. These are: 640x480 - 256 color 800x600 - 256 color 1024x768 - 256 color 640x480 - 16 bit A couple of observations about those settings: Setting color depth to 256 color allows the machine to do simultaneous display on the screen and an external monitor. This is useful for me because I have a tv tuner hooked up to the monitor so it's easier to watch the boob tube when I'm working and switch to the monitor when I need to see bigger or clearer. 800x600 or 1024x768 does, in fact, work on the 701CS screen. It's just that the whole thing doesn't show up at once. You wind up panning around the screen. I've played with this setting, putting up a Communicator, Eudora and a telnet session and switching between them by panning around the screen instead of using the taskbar. It's kinda fun, actually. The higher resolutions display completely on my external monitor, of course. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dale Chao Concord, California NEW>> Primary Email: geige@usa.net NEW>> My homepage: hepster.phy.uic.edu/~geige (last revision: 1/2/97) PGP key available -----------------------------------------------------------------------