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- From: eng30087@nusunix1.nus.sg (Seah Kwang Leng)
- Subject: Re: Bug Found in SVGA.EXE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.105118.26653@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:51:18 GMT
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- Jimmink R. (jimmink@sif.research.ptt.nl) wrote:
- : pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- :
- : >Be aware that there is a bug in the SVGA.EXE program supplied with the
- : >SP (and maybe with the orginal disks too). This has been verified by a
- : >number of users. The problem is that the SVGA program does not
- : >correctly identify certain video cards (notably Diamond Speed Star
- : >Plus ET4000 based cards). The work-around is to boot up under real DOS
- : >and run SVGA there. The PMI file thus created will be correct and
- : >should be used in place of the one created by SVGA.EXE when run under
- : >full screen OS/2 DOS sessions.
- :
- : >Paul
- : I tried to run SVGA.EXE and it did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! It just comes back
- : with a line saying Use: SVGA ON | OFF or something like that.
- : I use an OAK 67 SVGA card with 512Kb, and I think OS/2 doesn't recognize
- : the OAK card as an SVGA card.
- :
- : So I'm stuck at 'normal' VGA resolutions.
- :
- : --Ronald.
- :
-
- I have the same problem with SVGA.EXE. My primary display shows that I
- have a SVGA display installed.
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- Seah Kwang Leng | email : eng30087@nusunix1.nus.sg
- 3rd Year Electrical Engineering Student |
- National University of Singapore |
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