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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Generic Seamless Hi-res Drivers?
- Message-ID: <3919@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:04:58 GMT
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- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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-
- As some of you may already have noticed (see the ATI thread) the new
- seamless hi-res drivers from Trident (tri32new.exe on hobbes) appear to
- be work for non-Trident cards as well. They certainly work for ATI
- Wonder and Wonder XL cards. From the documentation it appears they
- may also work with ET4000, IBMVGA256c (whatever that is), Paradise,
- Video7 and, of course, Trident. My guess (completely uneducated) is
- that they include part of the 2.1 beta code. As such, they may work
- with any card supported by BVHSVGA.DLL.
-
- According to the documentation you need to have the service pack installed.
- You should follow the directions in tri32new.exe, with the following
- exceptions:
-
- 1. Do NOT install the VSVGA.SYS (this is actually documented in the
- INSTALL.TXT file written by Steve Withers [Thanks Steve!]).
- On an ATI, at least, it traps as soon as you try to open a DOS box.
-
- 2. You may not want to change the BVHSVGA.DLL or SVGADATA.PMI files.
- Leaving them alone solved a problem for me with a bad WPS display at
- 1024x768 resolution. Try replacing them first, and if it doesn't
- work right, try going back to the original (post-service pack) versions.
-
- 3. The README file does not explicitly say that you must change the
- drivers specified in SYSTEM.INI (the lines that start display.drv=...
- and sdisplay.drv=...), although I think it is clear from the
- examples given that you do need to (at least the seamless one).
-
- 4. You may not want to replace the FULL-SCREEN Windows driver. I found
- that the Windows cursor disappeared when I did a Ctrl-Esc to the
- desktop and back again. Going back to the ATI Windows driver solved
- this problem. You must still replace the seamless WINOS2 driver
- (the line that starts sdisplay.drv=...) in SYSTEM.INI.
-
- After doing this, you should have full seamless windows supported at
- 640x480x256, 800x600x256 and 1024x768x256. Yippee!
-
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- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
- ISG Technologies Inc. 6509 Airport Rd., Mississauga Ont. Canada L4V 1S7
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