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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: trident SVGA with SP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.212848.1739@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <BxzA2u.Cs7@scd.hp.com> <1992Nov19.194726.12502@eng.umd.edu> <BUHR.92Nov21205210@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:28:48 GMT
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- In article <BUHR.92Nov21205210@ccu.umanitoba.ca> buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr) writes:
- >> Does the service pack really support trident SVGA, or is this
- >> just a big lie. I installed it, and it claims to be running
- >> in SVGA, but it looks like the same old 640x480 crap to me.
- >> Am I missing something?
- >Even if it *says* your display is "Super VGA", you *must* select "OS/2
- >System -> System Setup -> Selective Install", select the "Display"
- >checkbox, remind OS/2 you have a "Super VGA", select the desired
- >resolution, and reinsert all the diskettes from your original OS/2
- >diskettes and the two display driver diskettes from the Service Pack
- >when prompted.
- >Then, when you restart your system, OS/2 *should* give you a Super VGA
- >desktop.
-
- Correct, but bear in mind that that method only works (at the moment)
- for Tseng 4000 and a special IBM 640x480x256 mode (which probably
- applies to the ThinkPad 700C, but I'm not sure about that).
-
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