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At 01:55 PM 7/3/97 -0400, you 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. > Is that different from the font smoothing that comes with the Plus Pack? The "gray" in the name makes me wonder, is there a way to force a color monitor to display greyscale instead? >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? > Exactly. (I've been finding out much more than I thought I wanted to trying to narrow down a display problem with a desktop machine. I've been swapping monitors and drivers a lot.) >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------