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- From: lowey@jester.usask.ca (CrazyMan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 32-bit Trident drivers hang my system!
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:49:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- Jay Maynard (jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu) wrote:
- :
- : I'm trying to get my 512K Trident 9000 to run with the 32-bit drivers recently
- : posted to ftp-os2. I followed the recently-posted directions, but when I
- : reboot, the system hangs with a black screen with the cursor in the upper left
- : corner. I'm trying to run in 800x600x256 mode. Any ideas? I've checked, and
- : all of the files from the driver distribution are there except for VSVGA.SYS,
- : and there is a SVGADATA.PMI file in C:\; there're also the appropriate lines
- : for SVGA support in CONFIG.SYS.
-
- I had this problem when I first installed it. Make sure you copy all the
- files with the "copy /b /v file1 file2" command. I had some problems trying
- to copy the IBMDEV32.DLL files, where only the first 512 bytes copied.
- The copy command thought it was a text file, and stopped copying after the
- first CONTROL-Z. (I also had this problem with the generic 800x600 driver)
-
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