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- Trident OS/2 2.1 Display Driver (Beta)
- 6/8/1993
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-
- Thank you for using Trident display adapter. Currently, Trident
- display drivers support the following resolutions with OS/2 2.1:
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- 640x480x16 (standard VGA)
- 640x480x256
- 800x600x16
- 800x600x256
- 1024x768x16
- 1024x768x256
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- Warning: This driver is only for Final Official Release of OS/2 2.1.
- It will not work with any BETA version of OS/2 2.1
-
-
- WHO NEEDS THESE DRIVERS
-
- IBM has done a great job to support all major super VGA
- cards in OS/2 2.1. But when they wrote the code, some of Trident
- chips were still under development. OS/2 2.1 is guarantteed to
- work with TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C and TVGA9000, but might have trouble
- to work with newer chips, such as TVGA8900CL/CXR/CXi, TGUI9420, etc.
-
- If you happen to use the newer Trident chip, you need drivers
- in this diskette.
-
- If you use TVGA8900B/C or TVGA9000 and meet trouble, you may try
- these drivers also, because they are newer and fixes some potential
- problems.
-
-
-
- PREREQUIRMENT:
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- We strongly recommend you installing boot manager onto the
- hard disk so that you can boot OS/2 and DOS. In case you make
- a big mistake in OS/2, you will have good chance to correct it by
- booting from DOS and manually modify configuration files.
-
- Before you install Trident OS/2 display drivers, make sure that
- the OS/2 is installed properly for generic VGA.
-
- To make OS/2 work in standard VGA mode, you need to tell
- OS/2 that the adapter is a VGA (Video Graphics Array) rather
- than Trident super VGA. The reason is: OS/2 2.1 knows how to
- recognize Trident chip. When it finds out a Trident card is
- installed, it will assume the board is a TVGA8900B/C or TVGA9000
- board, and use the corresponding special parameters to drive the
- card. Sometimes, that will set the new chip into an incorrect status.
-
- Use the following procedure to tell OS/2 to use generic VGA:
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- 1. After most of OS/2 is installed, you are asked to select
- video card. It will display the "Primary Display" is
- "Trident super VGA"
-
- Now, use mouse to click the square beside "Primary Dispaly"
- and it becomes "checked", and click "OK".
-
- 2. In the list of display cards, select
- "Video Graphics Array (VGA)"
-
- NOTE: Do NOT choose "IBM VGA 256c", which is not standard
- VGA.
-
- 3. Continue the installation.
-
-
- When you install the driver first time, be sure to make
- ORIGINAL OS/2 2.1 display driver diskettes handy, since
- most of the files needed to install Trident super VGA
- drivers are there.
-
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- INSTALLATION
-
- Since the drivers are too big to fit into one floppy, we
- need to copy all necessary files into a hard disk. Using hard
- disk will let you change resolutions easily.
-
- If you do not want to change resolution after the installation.
- you can simple delete the whole directory after you selected
- the right driver. You can save about 1.5M bytes hard disk
- space by deleting the whole directory.
-
- The installation procedure only works under DOS. It can be a full
- screen DOS session under OS/2 or a true DOS by booting from DOS
- partition.
-
- To copy drivers into hard disk, at "A:\>" prompt, run
- the following command:
-
- INSTALL boot_drv: [dsp_drv:\dsp_path] [dst_drv:\dst_path]
-
- Where:
- boot_drv OS/2 boot drive. Must be given.
-
- dsp_drv,dsp_path Drive and path where the original OS/2
- display drivers is located. It is an
- optional parametr. The default is A:.
- If dst_drv is A or B, don't give
- dsp_path.
-
- dst_drv,dst_path The destination drive and path where
- Trident display driver is copied to.
- An optional paramrter. The default is
- OS2_drive:\TROS2DRV. If this parameter
- is given, dsp_drv:\dsp_path must be
- specified.
-
-
- Examples:
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- INSTALL C:
-
- The OS/2 is installed on C: drive.
- The original OS/2 display driver will be in A:.
- Trident OS/2 drivers will be copied into C:\TROS2DRV.
-
-
- INSTALL D: D:\DISP
-
- The OS/2 is installed on D: drive.
- The original OS/2 display driver is in D:\DISP.
- Trident OS/2 drivers will be copied into D:\TROS2DRV.
-
-
- INSTALL C: A: C:\MYDRV
-
- The OS/2 is installed on C: drive.
- The original OS/2 display driver will be in A:.
- Trident OS/2 drivers will be copied into C:\MYDRV.
-
-
- After installation, the following files will be in \TROS2DRV:
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- DSPRES.DL_ TR480A.DSP
- IBMVGA32.DL_ TR480AC.DSP
- VGA TR480B.DSP
- WINVGA TR480BC.DSP
- WINXGA TR600A.DSP
- SV60016.DL_ TR600AC.DSP
- SV480256.DL_ TR600B.DSP
- SV600256.DL_ TR600BC.DSP
- SV768256.DL_ TR768A.DSP
- WSPDBF.DR_ TR768AC.DSP
- WSPDSBF.DR_ TR768B.DSP
- WSPDSF.DR_ TR768BC.DSP
- WSPDSSF.DR_ PSVGA32.DSP
- DSP256.DL_ PSSVGA32.DSP
- DSP76816.DL_
- SW256.DR_
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- SVGA.EXE is copied to \OS2;
- VSVGA.SYS is copied to \OS2\MDOS;
- PSTRID.DSC is copied to \OS2\INSTALL
-
- A new SVGADATA.PMI file will be generated in \OS2.
-
-
- SET RESOLUTION
-
- You need to run DSPINSTL (display installation) to select
- color and resolution you want.
-
- During DSPINSTL, choose "Trident" as primary display.
-
- When asked to assign where the driver is, set "Source Directory"
- to D:\TROS2DRV or where you copy the drivers to.
-
-
-
- Current 800x600 and 1024x768 16 colors drivers do not support
- seamless Windows. The seamless 16 color drivers will be in the
- next release very soon.
-
-
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- Copyright Trident Microsystem, 1993, all rights reserved.
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