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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Speedstar 24X Driver Problems
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:58:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee) writes:
-
- >Has anyone heard the rumors or experienced the SVGA drivers for the
- >Diamond Speedstar 24X? Specifically the OS/2 drivers.
-
- >I heard that they are pretty buggy and cause many system lock-ups. I also
- >hear that Diamond has been very flighty with repairing these problems.
-
- >Any comments?
-
- There aren't any OS/2 drivers. You can use the DOS drivers in DOS sessions and
- that works fine, but be careful of swapping sessions in and out - you monitor
- can loose synch. This is not a bug in the drivers, but a lack of current
- supprort in OS/2: when it switches to another DOS session, it does not
- recognise the video mode, and it tells the incoming session (incorrectly ) what
- video mode it is in.
-
- The windoze drivers work fine in a Win OS/2 session also, but you (again) must
- either exit windoze or switch to a standard VGA resolution session before using
- Ctrl-Esc to swap tasks.
-
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-