XGA206 Windows XGA-2 Display Driver
Released May 2006
XGA206 finally ends after so many years the XGA-2 driver misery on Windows 95/98 by providing the deserving 800x600 in Hi-Color (16-bit color depth or 64K colors) with up to 75 Hz frame refresh rates. XGA206 also supports the IBM XGA Display Adapter with the typical XGA resolutions and color depths.
XGA206 is the best XGA-2 Windows 95/98 display driver you would ever find. While the IBM XGA Technical Reference specifies 800x600 with 65536 colors (16-bpp) at some 60 Hz frame rate, XGA206 managed to provide 800x600 with 16-bit color depth at the more ergonomic 75 Hz refresh rate.
XGA206 successfully passed Microsoft's Display Compatibility Test. As of April 2008, XGA206 has been superseded by the new XGA208.
• Download XGA206 Display Driver for Windows 95/98.
Supported Resolutions and Color Depths on Windows 95/98
The following table lists the specifications of the supported resolutions and color depths of the XGA206 driver for the IBM XGA-2 and XGA Display Adapters.
Resolution
Pixels | BPP
Bits | Frame
Hz | Line
kHz | PEL
MHz | DMQS
ID | Monitor
Description |
| XGA-2 | | | | | | |
| 640x480 | 8, 16 | 60 | 31.6 | 25.25 | 5FF5 | 14" Generic |
| 640x480 * | 8, 16 | 72 | 37.9 | 31.50 | 95F9 | 14" Generic |
| 640x480 * | 8, 16 | 75 | 39.4 | 31.50 | 9955 | 14" Generic |
| | | | | | | |
| 800x600 ** | 8, 16 | 60 | 37.9 | 40.00 | 9955 | 14" Generic |
| 800x600 * | 8 | 72 | 48.1 | 50.00 | F5FF | 14" Generic |
| 800x600 | 16 | 72 | 45.4 | 45.00 | 1102 | IBM 6325 (15V), 9525 (15P) |
| 800x600 | 8 | 75 | 50.0 | 52.00 | 9999 | 14" Generic |
| 800x600 | 16 | 75 | 46.9 | 45.00 | 0302 | Sony GDM-2036S |
| | | | | | | |
| 1024x768 ** | 8 | 60 | 48.4 | 65.00 | F5FF | 16" Generic |
| 1024x768 * | 8 | 70 | 56.5 | 75.00 | 9955 | 14" Generic |
| 1024x768 | 8 | 72 | 58.1 | 79.00 | 99F0 | IBM 9517 |
| 1024x768 | 8 | 75 | 61.1 | 86.00 | F9FF | IBM 9515 |
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| 1280x1024 | 4 | 53 I | 58.1 | 106.00 | -- | Interlaced |
| | | | | | | |
| XGA | | | | | | |
| 640x480 | 8, 16 | 60 | 31.4 | 25.25 | -- | -- |
| 1024x768 | 8 | 43.5 I | 35.4 | 45.00 | -- | Interlaced |
* = Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) Standard
** = VESA Guideline
I = Interlaced
Acknowledgements
Driver development has been kindly sponsored by Charles Lasitter and compensation for efforts donated to Doctors Without Borders, sincere thanks.
Driver testing has been done by the members of comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware. I'd like to express my best thanks to all testers for their invaluable work, especially to - in order of appearance of their test reports - Jim Shorney, Peter Wendt, William Walsh, Daniel Hamilton, Louis Ohland and Jelte W. Roelfsema.
The history of the driver and authentic reports are included in the download package.
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