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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!conrad
- From: conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
- Subject: Re: VMODE ? video set on OS/2
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:28:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.022827.28383@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: interlaced,vmode,video
- References: <1993Jan20.142531.24820@dde.dk>
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1993Jan20.142531.24820@dde.dk> tpo@dde.dk (Thomas peter Sonne Olesen) writes:
-
- > I have a colorview et4000 based video card with 1Mb.
- >
- > I have a nice 1024x768 (256 colors) PM vindow , but it is interlaced.
- >
- > My video card will always choose to run interlaced, when going into
- > high resolusion mode, unless I have told it not to. In the dos world
- > I'm doing this by running a "VMODE 65M" command.
- >
- > How can I tell my videocard to run non-interlaced under OS/2 ??
- >
- > I have tried to run VMODE from a fullscreen DOS prompt, but it looks like
- > OS/2 reset the video card, before it return to my PM workplace.
-
- Open a DOS Fullscreen, Run VMODE 65M, and then 'SVGA ON'
-
- Next time you reboot, all will be well.
-
- Running SVGA ON tells OS2 to check out the values of the video card
- registers, and save them to the file SVGADATA.PMI in the OS2 directory.
- When OS/2 boots, it looks at this file to know how to set the video
- modes.
-
- (BTW - you can also run CENTER to set the screen position of hi res
- modes. SVGA ON also saves these positions.)
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- The contents of this article in no way represent the views of the NSA.
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