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- From: urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra: Are you sick of it yet?
- Date: 25 Jul 1992 03:08:22 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
- Lines: 47
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- References: <BrtELr.Ky5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul24.185646.22175@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.185646.22175@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <BrtELr.Ky5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Scott Braley) writes:
- >>
- >> I know that a lot of video card info has passed through this
- >>group, but I would like some assistance with mine. I have just purchased
- >>an ATI Graphics Ultra/1MB.
- --- stuff deleted ---
- >
- >Anyhow, from a full-screen DOS session, run the INSTALL program that
- >came with the board, and set the monitor type to NEC 3D, etc.
- >
- >That being done (you may have to reboot...), go to the Selective
- >Install utility (OS/2 System -> Setup -> Selective Install), and
- >install the 8514/a drivers. This will get you a 1024x768 desktop.
- >
- --- other stuff deleted ---
- Wellll ... Selective Install is a slight bit broken ... it _will not_
- install the appropriate fonts for an 8514 (because, as I heard, the font
- files are in use and cannot be written over, so it gives up on that).
- This will give you nasty problems with proportional fonts; they will be
- rather small, and clipped at the ends, and not properly drawn all round.
- You can just do the whole install again, which _won't_ destroy your desktop
- or move it aside, or you can do Selective Install and then later boot from
- a floppy, and replace the fonts. I haven't done the latter, so I don't know
- what they're called, but according to the gentleman from IBM who told me this
- method, they should have '8514' in the name.
- >
- >After rebooting, you should have a lovely hi-res accelerated desktop.
-
- Yes, it's very pretty. 256-color 40x40 icons look much better, for one thing.
-
- >--
- > |) David Charlap "I don't even represent myself
- > /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
- > ((|,)
- > ~|~ Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
-
- --
- Hi! I'm a .signature T-cell; isn't this .sig virus stuff getting old?
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