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- From: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Trident drivers and ATI card
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:20:13 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- Ignacy Misztal (ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- > I am having problems in using the Trident drivers on my ATI card. First,
- > I installed tri32new.zip over the vga800 generic driver, and still the old
- > vga800 driver popped up. Then I tried tri32.update.exe with DSPINST.
- > The WPS screen is fine except that some colors are wrong, but OS/2 full
- > screen does not synchronize. There are no seamless windows, and the
- > fullscreen windows paints part of the upper screen in the lower screen.
- > The card is ATI OEM with 512k. The system.ini is edited by the install
- > program.
-
- I have a similar setup (OEM ATI VGAWonder XL, 1Mb using generic vga800
- driver) but I had no problems switching to the Trident drivers.
-
- I can't exactly remember, but I think the installation instructions for
- the generic driver said to place it in a directory "\DISPLAY" and add
- this directory to the LIBPATH in CONFIG.SYS (ie. LIBPATH=.;C:\DISPLAY;...).
- Did you remove this directory from LIBPATH when you installed the trident
- drivers? If not, that would explain why it used the generic driver instead
- of the trident ones.
-
- Does anyone else feel that the fact that those of us with ATI cards must
- rely on a _competing_ company (Trident) for OS/2 drivers reflects
- EXTREMELY badly on ATI. According to what I've read here, ATI won't
- have 32 bit drivers until 2Q93 (6+ months after almost everyone else!!!)
-
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- Darryl Friesen | Department of Computing Services
- friesenda@sask.usask.ca | University of Saskatchewan
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