Re: Recurrent serial port problems

Warren H. Minix (minix@che.udel.edu)
Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:39:23 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Stephen P.Fellowes - O.A.S.Technical Support Analyst wrote:

> Darren does this imply that you have successfully loaded a better display
> driver, that works and does not cause problems ?, if so please tell me
> more,what driver,etc,etc.
>

The video card is an STB Velocity 64vlb (2mb). The driver which
came with the card that is identified as being the "compatible" one is
labeled as a PCI driver. I've talked to a couple of people who said that
it really shouldn't matter and that the 64bit card probably causes this
despite the bus. I switched to a newer driver which I downloaded
straight from S3 (oh..chipset is S3-V968, it probably wouldn't hurt if I
mentioned that this was Win95 either). I will have t check when I get
home, but I believe the driver version is 1.09i.
Obviously this is only of use for a higher end S3 chipset. But
what would try is setting the display to generic svga or vga. I would
also try taking out as many tsr's or other apps (DT accessories, PIM's
etc). Might also try remming-out EMM386 or QEMM, etc. to see. If
possible I would try to see if the OGO will function on another machine.
I was about convinced that it was a hardware problem with the OGO untils
I loaded MacPCCom or whatever it is onto a Mac at work and it functioned
properly (at least the connection did, the trounced half of the files,
don't know if it didn't like the Geos filename format or what).
Regards
WHM

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