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TROTTIER, Tom wrote: > 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 > ----------------- > ----------------------------------------------------- Hi What is the url for Chips and Tech for drivers please.Thanks Don