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- From: dscott@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Doug Scott)
- Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP OS/2 and Tseng Board HELP!
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- References: <1992Nov7.231239.27501@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:14:14 GMT
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- In <1992Nov7.231239.27501@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
-
- >
- >
- > *Sigh.* My install of OS/2 was going so well, too. I
- >installed the general release of OS/2, and then placed the CSD atop of
- >it without incident. I was really impressed with the speed and
- >multitasking of the system. So I decided I would go ahead and install
- >the 800x600x256 Tseng driver. I successfully negotiated the Welcome
- >folder mystery, and appear to have successfully installed the hi-res
- >driver.
- >
- > The *Problem* is one I alluded to in an earlier question. I
- >have a generic Tseng board that relies on a peice of software to set
- >it into its various modes. One of the most important of these modes
- >from my standpoint is one which changes the refresh rate of the card
- >to a lower one than is the default. See, I have a relatively old
- >multisync monitor; it only goes to 800x600, and (I think) at 60 hz ( I
- >use the command "vmode 35k". In DOS, I would simply run the program
- >in my autoexec bat file if I intended to use 800x600 Windoze.
- >
- > Failure to set this switch properly, in Windows and OS/2,
- >results in a violently swimming screen, totally unreadable, once the
- >graphics (in my case, the OS/2 desktop) appear on the screen. And if I
- >recall my previous Windows misery with this problem, once the screen
- >is screwed, running the program doesn't help.
- >
- > So what I need, ideally, folks, is a way of having OS/2
- >calling this little DOS utility BEFORE it initializes its desktop. I
- >am certain that if we can do this, everything will look OK (though the
- >screen is fairly messed up, I can see windows changing if I hit
- >alt-esc and so on. There _has_ to be a way to do this -- please
- >help!!!
- >
- > Barring that, I am going to need some way to remove my
- >"failed" driver and returning to a usable screen.
- >
- > Oh, yeah -- one big thing working in our favor. I formatted
- >under the normal FAT arrangment, with Dual Boot. I _can_ get at my
- >files and utilities right now.
- >
- > Help gratefully accepted!!
-
- > An almost-very satistfied user of OS/2 2.0!
-
-
- Hey, the solution is in the new README that came with the CSD.
- Make a startup.cmd file that contians
-
- start /fs /dos setmode.bat
-
- then a dos batch file setmode.bat which contains
-
- c:\video\vmode 35k
- exit
-
- Check the README file. Its a little beeter explained and has better
- spelling tham I.
-
- My $0.02 worth. This time it might actually be worth 2 cents!!
- Doug.
- .
- PS. I don't think you have to undo your changes. Just boot to does to do the
- editting. I guess.........
-