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- From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
- Subject: Re: Need help with ET4000
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.151745.6579@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:17:45 GMT
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- smackinl01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
-
- >I have an ET4000 based board...
- >Oh yeah, the board is a Ultra VGA?? Using debug, the bios seems
- >to be a TSENG bios...
-
- Seems to be? You should find out for sure. Get the msd.exe utility
- from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in the /pub/os2/2.0/dos subdirectories and run
- it. It will tell you all about your video card.
-
- >with the orchid? orcad? drivers the screen doesn't switch into
- >graphics mode... simply stays in text mode and leaves blue "spaces"
- >on the screen
-
- First, run the SVGA ON command from a full screen text mode command
- line. That will configure OS/2 for your specific card's abilities.
- Then make sure you have the line 'IOPL=YES' in your config.sys file.
- Next make sure that you're not trying to run these screen drivers
- in 70Hz refresh mode because they can only handle 60Hz at this point.
- Be sure to read the installation text file for any other info about
- these drivers.
-
- BTW, you're really not missing much. They only give you two fonts
- in your windowed DOS sessions, you can't run seamless Windows with
- them, the color palette is way off in 256 colors, windowed VGA DOS
- apps are still mapped to 16 colors, and the whole WPS is slow, slow,
- slow. Hmmph.
-
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- BTW, WYSInaWYG | | | --witty.saying.ARC
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