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- From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
- Subject: Re: Bug Found in SVGA.EXE
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:36:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <Z41DuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- References: <1992Nov17.135623.10227@u.washington.edu>
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- rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel) writes:
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- > In article <o16cuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.u
- > >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.
- > >
- > >Paul
- > >
- > 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?
-
- Hmmm. The mail seems to be running about even on this one. I've had
- people tell me they've had exactly the same problem and used the same
- fix and people (like the above) tell me that svga.exe worked exactly
- as advertised on their system. Who can figure it?
-
- Let's just say that SVGA.EXE is inconsistent in its card
- identification. Users with what appear to be almost identical
- configurations are having very different results when they follow
- identical steps in installing high res video support.
-
- IBM's ET4000 support, while functional, hasn't proven (witness the incessant
- traffic on the subject) to be a paragon of driver support.
-
- Just my opinion...
-
- Paul;
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