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- Hi CatsEye owners,
-
- here is all you need to get your CatsEye XGA-2 card to work correctly
- under OS/2 2.1 (did not test OS/2 2.0) with a 64K aperture.
-
- According to the IBM APAR database (and according to my experience)
- APAR PJ10035 is the following problem:
-
- If you have a CatsEye XGA card installed in a ISA/EISA machine with
- more than 15MB memory then you should set the memory aperture of
- the card to 64K (Switch S3, 1-4 to on). Otherwise you are in big
- trouble if some software (e.g. Ultimotion/2) tries to use a 1Meg
- aperture.
-
- Unfortunately with the 2.1 GA release of OS/2 this prevents DOS sessions
- (and therefore WINOS2 sessions as well) to work any more (if you start
- such a session you will get an empty black screen and a dead session).
-
- Reason is that the 2.1 GA VXGA.SYS driver simpply does not expect to
- find an XGA configured for a 64k aperture... again according to IBMs
- description of PJ10035 the solution is to replace the VXGA.SYS of 2.1
- GA with that of build 6A.585 for OS/2 2.1 and everything is fine
- again (attention: the file has EAs).
-
- But where do you get it? Well at least the IBM OS/2 hotline didn't
- know until shortly... :-)
-
- Fortunately the BETA 2.1 CSD was released recently and believe it or not,
- this CSD includes a build 6.600 VXGA.SYS driver in bundle DOS on disk 12
- and this version of the driver works just fine!
-
- To save all you CatsEye owners the hassle to get this CSD and
- retrieve the file, I have included here (I hope I will not get a call
- from an IBM lawyer for this).
-
- But remember: this is NOT the official IBM fix for PJ10035; it is
- just all that is needed to fix PJ10035 on my machine (and hopefully
- yours as well, so no guarantees whatsoever)
-
- Cheers,
-
- - Clemens
-
-