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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Bug Found in SVGA.EXE
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:42:37 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- 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.
-
- Is this the SP version or the original version of SVGA? If the new, does
- the check that OS2 makes of the card when it changes modes agree with
- SVGAdata.pmi- ie does it work?
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