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- From: ltlowe@bnr.ca (Todd Lowe)
- Subject: SVGA ON question.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.224905.19960@bnr.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:49:05 GMT
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- I've just recently installed OS/2, and have an S3 based Wind/X card.
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- I know there aren't OS/2 drivers yet, but I have a question about SVGA and
- OS/2 full screen sessions.
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- 1st when I boot, and OS/2 normally gives the blank screen and asks you
- to wait (after the logo), I get garbage as if something is writing
- randomly into a text screen video memory.
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- If I hit keys (don't know what, I just get annoyed and start banging on
- the key board) the HD light comes on and OS/2 loads. Then if I open a
- full screen DOS box and run SVGA ON, and the open a full screen OS/2
- session the screen is fine. If I don't run SVGA then I get garbage
- in my full screen sessions like I do when I boot.
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- Any ideas?
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- It seems that SVGA fixes the problem, but I thought that once SVGA was
- run once, it built a data file, and then didn't have to be run again.
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- -Todd
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- ltlowe@bnr.ca
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