Hi there, some of you might remember my recent question in the chat concerning flickering screens with Arachne and almost new graphic cards. OK, the simple answer seems to be to lower the screen solution via Arachne's graphic setup, so that the refresh rate will be raised automatically - or should I say "hopefully"...
Then I remembered this UNIVESA driver and that I had never used it. I read the doc file that came with version 3.2 from 1993, which someone had posted long ago on this list as an attachment. That version incorporates VESA v1.2 which would be probably useful for my old graphic card SPEA V7-VEGA Plus PCI (1 MB VRAM) from 1994, because it only supports VESA v1.02 in its BIOS. But, as I already said in the chat, this flicker problem isn't mine, but has been reported from two different people with newer SVGAs instead. So I looked on www.scitechsoft.com what would be the last Display Doctor for those people and found a v6.53 for DOS (about 1 MB) on the ftp server. It seems to be a package with several tools and absolutely no doc files except a relatively small readme.txt. The Windows package (about 2 MB) probably has those docs, as this is mentioned in the text file. It is *not* the newest and maybe the last freeware/shareware version, because I did not encounter any registration screens, but I'm not sure about that. So my question is: has anyone tested this version of Scitech Display Doctor (SDD) and can tell me if it would make sense to use it together with Arachne and new graphic cards in order to get around those flickering screens? Because it's mentioned in the readme.txt that it would be possible to alter the refresh rate independently from screen resolution and/or color configuration. If someone's interested, I could also post this text file (13 KB) here... ZZee ya, Hans-J�rgen
