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- From: mcleod@fraser.sfu.ca (D'Arcy Dean McLeod)
- Subject: Video Driver Puzzle
- Message-ID: <mcleod.722109569@sfu.ca>
- Summary: Video Driver Puzzle
- Keywords: Video Driver Puzzle
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:59:29 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- Windows users - Help
-
- I have Win3.1 installed on a Novell 2.2 net with windows working
- fine. One station just received a SVGA screen which I want to
- install. The standard SVGA video driver as suppied with windows
- works but leaves black bands down the right and left side about 1.5
- inches wide thereby wasting a good chunk of screen real estate.
-
- So I downloaded the recent video griver to match the Trident card
- for Win31.
-
- The problem is installing them on the network.
-
- When I attempt to install the video drivers into the user network
- home directory using the shared copy of windows (the station does
- not have a local hard drive) the installation starts but gives me
- error messages when it attempts to copy two of the video drivers
- Windows gives the error message "the file vddtvga.386 needed to
- install this driver is not available on the network. Your system
- does not have permission to copy the file to the network" After
- cancelling I get the message "setup was unable to copy because the
- file is write protected or in use by windows."
-
- I have supervisor rights so I can copy, I've tried running setup /n
- from the DOS prompt, I've tried copying the required files manually
- in DOS to the user directory and shared windows directory, I've
- tried flagging the shared files both read only and read write.
-
- Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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