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- OS/2 Installation Notes
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- READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS PRODUCT !
-
- You must run QUICK SETUP from the Main Menu and select an appropriate
- monitor type, prior to installing the OS/2 Display Driver.
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- Contents
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- 1.0 Installation Notes for OS/2
- 2.0 Uninstalling the OS/2 drivers
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- 1.0 Installation Notes for OS/2
-
- Notes
- a)Before installing the ATI OS/2 display drivers, you must
- set your system to use the IBM supplied VGA driver. Type SETVGA from
- a full screen OS/2 session to accomplish this.
-
- b)If the PM Desktop does not reappear after exiting from the full screen
- DOS session. Pressing <Enter> brings you back to full screen.
- You must reboot to get back to the PM Desktop.
-
- c)Check the Window List (press CTRL-ESC) to see if you have any WIN-OS/2
- or DOS sessions iconized. Close them all as the OS2 device driver
- install not complete successfully if a WIN-OS/2 or DOS session is running.
-
- d)To complete the install successfully you will require the following
- information:
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- *The OS/2 boot drive on which the PM driver is located.
- *The default ATI OS/2 driver directory is C:\MACH_OS2.
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- After you have set the operating system to use the IBM supplied VGA driver:
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- 1) Open an OS/2 Window or Full Screen command prompt, insert disk #1 of the
- ATI supplied utility disks. Change to the drive containing the ATI disk
- and type OS2INST.
-
- 2) When the main selection menu appears,
- a)Select Drivers Installation and press <Enter>.
- b)From the Install Enhanced Drivers menu select IBM OS/2 and press <Enter>
- c)Follow the on screen prompts until this portion of the installation
- process complete.
-
- 3) When the files have been successfully copied to your hard disk, open an
- OS/2 session and type DSPINSTL, then press <Enter>.
-
- 4) When the Display Driver Install panel appears, select Primary Display
- and click OK to bring up the Primary Display Driver List.
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- 5) Select "ATI mach64 (Enhanced ....)" from the list and click OK.
-
- Note: Users of OS/2 version 3.0 will be presented with a Monitor
- Configuration/Selection Utility. You should "Install Using Defaults
- for Monitor Type".
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- 6) When the source directory panel appears, select 'Change' and enter:
- C:\MACH_OS2 (replace c: with your boot drive letter if you don't use c)
- Click 'Set' and then 'Install'. After the files are copied, exit the OS/2
- window or full screen session. Shut down and restart your system.
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- 8) The PM driver will first come up in 640x480, 256 colors mode. Use the
- following steps to change the screen resolutions or number of colors:
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- a) Open 'OS/2 System' icon.
- b) Open 'System Setup' icon.
- c) Open 'System' icon.
- b) Select the 'Screen' tab.
- e) Select the desired resolution and number of colors from the list.
- f) Double click on the system menu icon or select close from the system
- menu to close the window.
- g) Shut down and restart your system.
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- After installing the driver, please see README.INF for further details,
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- 2.0 Uninstalling the OS/2 drivers
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- 1) Open an OS/2 window or OS/2 Full Screen icon and type:
- DSPINSTL for OS/2 version 2.1 and SELECTIVE INSTALL for OS/2 Warp and
- press <enter>.
-
- 2) Select Primary Display and click OK to bring up a list of choices. Select
- "Video Graphics Array (VGA) from the list.
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- 3) When the source directory panel appear, insert the OS/2 /Display Driver
- diskette. Select the drive and path name where the VGA driver resides
- (typically A: or B:), choose Set and then choose Install.
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- 4) After the install is complete, shut down and restart your system.
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- Note: After completing step 4, OS/2 is using VGA for a display. If you
- wish to remove the mach64 files from you hard drive continue on.
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- 5) Restart OS/2 and open a full screen DOS session.
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- 6) Insert the Graphics Pro Turbo disk # 1 in the appropriate drive. Change
- directories to the floppy drive and type: INSTALL <enter>.
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- 7) Select Driver Installation from the Main Menu.
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- 8) Select IBM OS/2 from the list of applications.
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- 9) Select UNINSTALL OS/2 Drivers, and follow the instructions on the
- screen.
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