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- From: holli@greiling.sto.mchp.sni.de (Holger Liebig)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 2.1b and SVGA sync
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:39:17 GMT
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, W-8000 Munich
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- In article <1993Jan27.014711.24877@news.columbia.edu>, mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- |> OK. I have had 2.1b running in 800x600x256 mode for a week, now.
- |> Tseng ET4000 (Diamond Speedstar 24).
- |> I just tried running cshow, and the PM desktop lost sync completely!
- |> Not only doesn't vmode fix this, but pressing reset doesn't either!~
- |> Next I am going to try turning the machine off completely...if not, then
- |> I will replace the .PMI file. Does anyone know what happened and why?
- |> Did cshow change the card timings permanently in a way OS2 can't handle?
- |> This is very serious.
- |>
- |> Full screen sessions are ok, and I learned from experience to put start /fs
- |> into startup.cmd just in case something messes up PM :-)
- |>
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- I had a similar problem. Every return from an DOS fullscreen mode session
- caused the PM desktop to go out of sync.
- The solution for me was to use the vsvga.sys (\os2\mdos directory)
- from the service pack.
- Everything works now perfectly.
-
- Hope, this helps
-
- Ciao, Holger
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