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Author: Peter Stokes
Date: Mar 10, 2008 21:55

After a lengthy period of decay I am reinstalling my system from scratch
and if you can believe it am pretty excited about how much stuff I can
refresh since the last time (~2003... where have you gone warpupdates.de?).

I am running Warp 4 FP15. I nicked a new monitor this time 'round and
am determined to get at least 1280x1024X16M resolution from the ATI Rage
Pro 8MB card. I have two free driver choices, each with issues that I
hope will look familiar to someone, please tell me what's fixable!

SDD 7.0.9 (internally 7.0.7, the IBM RagePro/se distro) (SDDGRADD)
- In Firefox, (scaled?) bitmaps often appear flipped upside down. This
is a dealbreaker.
- Ridiculous giant Duplo system fonts, also...
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: Dave Yeo
Date: Mar 11, 2008 00:40

On 03/10/08 09:55 pm, Peter Stokes wrote:
> After a lengthy period of decay I am reinstalling my system from scratch
> and if you can believe it am pretty excited about how much stuff I can
> refresh since the last time (~2003... where have you gone warpupdates.de?).
>
> I am running Warp 4 FP15. I nicked a new monitor this time 'round and am
> determined to get at least 1280x1024X16M resolution from the ATI Rage
> Pro 8MB card. I have two free driver choices, each with issues that I
> hope will look familiar to someone, please tell me what's fixable!
>
> SDD 7.0.9 (internally 7.0.7, the IBM RagePro/se distro) (SDDGRADD)
> - In Firefox, (scaled?) bitmaps often appear flipped upside down. This
> is a dealbreaker.
> - Ridiculous giant Duplo system fonts, also a dealbreaker, but I see
> there are settings/patches for PM and Win-OS/2
> - I think stretched TrueType fonts. My memory is hazy because as soon as
> I saw the flipped bitmaps I moved on. See below for more reliable
> description of same problem with current driver.
> - gactrl reveals an interlaced 1600x1200 mode that looked quite steady,
> but the actual driver does not seem to support interlaced modes. I got ...
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: Percival P. Cassidy
Date: Mar 11, 2008 05:42

On 03/11/08 03:40 am Dave Yeo wrote:
>> After a lengthy period of decay I am reinstalling my system from scratch
>> and if you can believe it am pretty excited about how much stuff I can
>> refresh since the last time (~2003... where have...
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: Peter Brown
Date: Mar 11, 2008 13:09

Hi All

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
> On 03/11/08 03:40 am Dave Yeo wrote:
>
>>> After a lengthy period of decay I am reinstalling my system from scratch
>>> and if you can believe it am pretty excited about how...
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: Dave Yeo
Date: Mar 11, 2008 16:43

On 03/11/08 05:42 am, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
> On 03/11/08 03:40 am Dave Yeo wrote:
>
[...]
>>
>> Have you tried the personal SNAP driver available at my.scitechsoft.com?
>
>
> Are you sure that's still available? I tried to create a driver a few
> weeks back, and it said it had done so, but I couldn't find anything to
> download. IAC, isn't such a driver good only for 6 months?
>
> You do know that Scitech put its video driver stuff up for sale, don't
> you? There doesn't seem to be any further development going on.
>
> Perce
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: ghjanfd09
Date: Mar 11, 2008 18:12

In , on 03/11/2008
at 11:43 PM, Dave Yeo gmail.com> said:
>On 03/11/08 05:42 am, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
>> On 03/11/08 03:40 am Dave Yeo wrote:
>>
>[...]
>>>
>>> Have you tried the personal SNAP driver available at my.scitechsoft.com?
>>
>>
>> Are you sure that's still available? I tried to create a driver a few
>> weeks back, and it said it had done so, but I couldn't find anything to
>> download. IAC, isn't such a driver good only for 6 months?
>>
>> You do know that Scitech put its video driver stuff up for sale, don't
>> you? There doesn't seem to be any further development going on.
>>
>> Perce
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Re: ATI Rage Pro drivers         


Author: William L. Hartzell
Date: Mar 11, 2008 20:11

Sir:

Peter Stokes wrote:
> After a lengthy period of decay I am reinstalling my system from scratch
> and if you can believe it am pretty excited about how much stuff I can
> refresh since the last time (~2003... where have you gone warpupdates.de?).
I see that he is gone. That site was there when I last look in mid
January... Sorry to see it go. Maybe it is on 'the archive of the
Internet' project site.

--
Bill
Thanks a Million!
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