On 21 Dec 98 at 12:58, Raymond Hornung wrote:

> The default, PCI VGA driver is only 16-color, I expect more from a
> 2MB card!

  Nothing to do with PCI -- the VGA spec dates from 1987, and
includes only 256K of video memory supporting 640x480x16 colours.
You need a compatible driver (and an "SVGA" card) to go any higher
than that.
  Many modern cards have onboard BIOSes that are "VBE" compatible;
it's my impression that these should work with any VBE-compatible
driver, although perhaps not quite as fast as with a more specific
driver.

> If anyone has the WIN95 drivers for the Alliance PCI Video Card with the
> Promotion 3210 chip please let me know off list.  The driver disk which
> came with it says MMUI 3600 but the drivers don't work, I get an error
> from windows saying incompatible driver installed for the hardware.

  When I search AltaVista for "+promotion 3210 vga", the very first
hit is on

http://www.softsolnet.com/html/drivers/video/alliance/promotion_3210_drivers.htm

which offers various drivers to use this chipset with different OSes.
Win95 is at the top of the page.

  It kind of sounds like maybe the wrong disk got into the box with
your card.  It happens sometimes.

David G

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