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- Subject: Re: 32-bit Trident Drivers!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.162846.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: ttullio@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 11 Dec 92 16:28:46 EST
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- In article <1992Dec10.190938.1136764@sue.cc.uregina.ca>, skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (P. Takis Skagos) writes:
- > These are *NOT* new display drivers. This package contains replacements
- > for a number of OS/2 files. When you extract the files from the archive,
- > there are a number of IBMDEV32.DLL files. The first one extracted is the
- > 640x480, the second one extracted is the 800x600 and the third one extracted
- > is the 1024x768 version. Replace the file /os2/dll/ibmdev32.dll with the
- > appropriate replacement. There are a couple of other files too. Replace
- > the os/2 versions of these files with the Trident versions. You should also
- > have a Trident 256 colour driver (replacement DISPLAY.DLL ... that you can
- > ftp from hobbes.nmsu.edu) -- replace DISPLAY.DLL with the Trident version.
-
- Why replace DISPLAY.DLL? I did not do this, and things seem to be working
- fine. Isn't the Trident 256 DISPLAY.DLL a 16-bit-specific file?
-
- > ... What
- > really bugs me is that openning up <SETTINGS> displays. The tabs on the
- > notebooks are all garbaged up ...
- > P. Takis Skagos
-
- Several people have mentioned this, but I've had no such problem ... the only
- unfortunate side effect I've experienced with the new drivers is PM palette
- confusion when opening a seamless Windows app, requiring a DOS fullscreen
- startup to restore proper colors. Hmmm..
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