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- From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
- Subject: SpeedSTAR Turbo Windows Drivers Under Win-OS2 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.082904.13155@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:29:04 GMT
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- I'm not sure if this is an apps or a misc question, but ...
-
- I recently got a Diamond SpeedSTAR-24 card, and would like to use the Win
- 3.0 drivers that came with it to drive Win-OS2. I should point out that I
- am currently using an old SpeedSTAR 1024x768x256 driver successfully with
- Win-OS2, but the new turbo drivers are significantly faster when I tested
- them under real Windoze 3.0.
-
- To patch in the new driver, I did essentially the same thing as I did for
- the old one: I changed the driver= line in os2\mdos\winos2\system.ini to
- wspdtbf.drv (from vga478.drv, the old driver) and I added the line
- "driver=SpeedSTAR Turbo Windows -1024x768x256" to the [boot.description]
- section to match the real Windoze system.ini. I also have it set up to use
- the 8514 system fonts and the *f.fon fonts (the same as with the old
- driver).
-
- So now I start Win-OS2: while loading it tells me that it loaded the turbo
- drivers in 1024x768 mode and it then gives me my basic desktop. However,
- if I now start up WordPerfect for Windows or if I try to preview some of the
- fonts in the "control panel" window, it gives me the following error message:
-
- GP fault in module: wspdtbf.drv at 0004:0627
- Press okay to close application
-
- I get the identical message every time. Anyone have any guesses as to what
- this means? It seems to be font related, but I've tried various
- permutations of Win-OS2 fonts and SpeedSTAR fonts without success (the
- SpeedSTAR fonts don't seem to work at all). If anyone out there has
- successfully run the Turbo Windows drivers, I'd love to hear from you. If
- you can tell me what that error message means, I'd love to hear from you,
- too. Thanks.
-
- Mike
-
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