NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/40746

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin J. Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Tseng SVGA stuff, WinOS/2 Setup..
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Date: 31 Dec 92 05:54:00 GMT
Organization: SPS ACAD BBS, [phone]
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I recently decided to purchase a better ISA video card. (I had a Paradise
PVGA1C based board with 512k and NO DRIVERS.) I decided on a Tseng ET4000
based card, mostly because drivers come with it in the SP. I don't have
any documents on my SVGA monitor however. How can I tell what mode my
SVGA card is using to talk to my monitor at a given resolution? The
monitor does support 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. I'd like to be using
the 800x600 mode (for speed and icon size reasons, mostly) but, this SVGA
board will support several different vsync frequencies including a putrid
56.2Hz mode.

It will also support 60Hz and 72.7Hz modes. I have a vmode utility by
which I can request a particular refresh rate, but since it's a DOS
program how does this mix with OS/2?

One other item: How does one get a normal Windows setup program? The one
I've got in \os2\mdos\winos2 only allows me to change the network for
WinOS/2. I have a 65000 color 640x480 driver for my SVGA card that I'd
like to use for my WinOS/2 driver. Only thing is that the instructions
for loading this driver assume that you're installing into a normal Windows
system, not OS/2.


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