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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Getting Trident SVGA to work?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.005507.4024@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul24.192416.1445@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:55:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.192416.1445@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cdonnell@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris E Donnell) writes:
- >I am trying to get Tridents SVGA driver to work with OS/2. I install
- >everything according to Trident's directions and when I shutdown and reboot it
- >comes up to a black screen with a cursor in the top left corner. I then have
- >to reload all of OS/2 so it is usable. Can anyone help me with this problem.
- >The computer came with a 512Kb Trident SVGA card that can handle 1024x768 in 16
- >colors and 800x600 in 256 colors, the same for 640x480.
-
- This problem crops up in two situations. One is that you do not have
- IOPL=YES in your CONFIG.SYS. The other is that you have not applied
- the tridfix.zoo patch, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, which fixes several problems with 512K adapters.
- Assuming you have a Trident 8900 or 9000 series adapter, you should
- then be all set.
-
- I am also assuming you have run SVGA ON from a full screen DOS session
- prior to installing these drivers.
-
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