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- From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Bug Found in SVGA.EXE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.135623.10227@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:56:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov17.135623.10227
- References: <o16cuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
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- In article <o16cuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- >Be aware that there is a bug in the SVGA.EXE program supplied with the
- >SP (and maybe with the orginal disks too). This has been verified by a
- >number of users. The problem is that the SVGA program does not
- >correctly identify certain video cards (notably Diamond Speed Star
- >Plus ET4000 based cards). The work-around is to boot up under real DOS
- >and run SVGA there. The PMI file thus created will be correct and
- >should be used in place of the one created by SVGA.EXE when run under
- >full screen OS/2 DOS sessions.
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- Sorry to say this, but it worked quite fine for my Diamond SpeedStar Plus
- ET4000 card. As a matter of fact, I'm quite happy with how everything works.
- So it must be a real nice bug, eh?
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- > __________________________________________________________________________
- > Paul S. Kedrosky || "A screaming comes across the sky.
- > pkedrosk@business.uwo.ca || It has happened before, but there is
- > University of Western Ontario || nothing to compare it to now."
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