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- From: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
- Subject: Re: SVGA on SpeedStar Plus anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.141600.1433@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec24.031347.25836@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:02:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.031347.25836@nwnexus.WA.COM>, danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes...
- >I'd like to find out if any reader of this news group has managed to implement
- >Super VGA display for OS/2 with Diamond SpeedStar Plus and CrystalScan 1024
- >NI monitor. This setup was sold by Gateway about a year ago, with their
- >486/33C computers. The video card is NOT the Stealth, HighColor, or "24"
- >version; just the plain "Plus" with 1 Mb memory.
- >
- >According to the IBM documentation that came with the OS/2 Service Pak, the
- >SVGA drivers in that Pak can support the SpeedStar card with some special
- >hacking of the STARTUP.CMD file invoking VMODE but I couldn't make it work
- >for my system.
- >
- >Did anybody here have more luck with it?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Joe Pannon
-
- I have no problem with my Gateway 386/33c & CrystalScan 1024 NI that
- I bought about this time last year.
-
- This has been addressed by numerous others here before, so thanks goes
- to them. If I remember correctly, do:
- o install via selective install
- o go to full screen dos
- o svga off
- o vmode monitor (vmode.exe must be on dos path etc. it came with system)
- o vmode 38 (for 1024x768) -or- vmode 30 (for 800x600) -or-
- ... leave this line out for 640x480x256)
- o svga on
- o exit full screen dos, shutdown, reboot
-
- I also have in my (dos autoexec.bat) vmode monitor, I'm not sure if
- this is *required* but it does work for me.
-
- I have 2 OS/2 partitions, one for testing new s/w (ie. beta, ga + sp
- for the first time etc.) for for real. Both currently have ga + sp.
- One uses 640x480x256 and the other uses 800x600. I know the above
- works for these resolutions.
-
- Note that the IBM directions talk about startup.cmd etc. Don't
- do it. Also, remember to use the GA disks when selective install
- prompts you for them (ie. after you select your svga resolution
- and feed the system the last disk(s) with the hi-res drivers.)
-
- I hope this helps.
- Good luck & Hapy Holidays
- /Mike
-