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- From: sparapan@flash.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing)
- Subject: Profile for 800x600x256 Trident SVGA driver with seamless winos2
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- Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:40:21 GMT
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-
- I decided to post this after I had some difficulty in installing the
- 800x600x256 SuperVGA driver for my 1M Trident card on top of the
- 32 Bit Service Pack Graphics Engine. Firstly, I had great difficulty
- finding the correct drivers. The Service Pack documentation suggested
- a method for installing 16-bit drivers, but this was not what I got the
- Service Pack for in the first place. I located the drivers known as
- "/pub/archives/os2/drivers/tri32new.zoo" on "ftp.usask.ca". I'd like to
- thank Kevin Lowey for making them available on his site and putting them
- in a useful format ".zoo". The drivers themselves were provided by
- Steve Withers from Trident who I must thank for the free drivers and the
- good work.
-
- One of the problems that I encountered was largely mental.
- The methods of OS/2 1.3 and OS/2 2.0 GA for installing display drivers
- have been some what abandoned for the Service Pack. You no longer have
- a profile and you don't replace "display.dll", "vga.drv", or "swinvga.drv"
- with the new drivers. The "config.sys" needs no modification
- either. The only file you have to modify is the WINOS2 "system.ini" (see
- below). The reason there is no profile is that no one has written one.
- No one until now that is. I have included a profile for 800x600x256
- resolution with seamless windows support.
-
- Another problem is that some of the Trident utilities no longer work
- while others are very helpful. The utilities came from hobbes;
- "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu" in the directory "/pub/os2/2,0/drivers". The
- utility "tvgacrtc.sys" will crash your system. The utility "polarity.com"
- has no effect. The "deskman.exe" and "dispinfo.exe" utilities worked
- perfectly. The "smode.exe" utility works for both DOS and OS/2
- environments for some modes; I found the modes starting with 5 worked best.
-
- To use the profile it assumes that you have un-zoo-ed your
- files in the directory "C:\TRIDENT", that you want to make backups of the
- key files onto "A:" and that your operating system is based at "C:\OS2".
- I should also thank IBM for the cheap upgrade and the Internet for
- allowing us to use this bandwith. I hope this is helpful. By the way,
- I think you'll be pretty impressed with the 256 color driver. Check out
- fractint plasma or spider.
-
- Rodney
-
- ---------------------------tri32new.ddp-----------------------------------------
-
- :TITLE
- Trident 800x600x256 with Seamless Windows Support
- :CONFIG
- :FILES
- C:\OS2\SVGA.EXE A:\SVGA.EXE
- C:\OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL A:\BVHSVGA.DLL
- C:\OS2\DLL\IBMVGA32.DLL A:\IBMVGA32.DLL
- C:\OS2\DLL\IBMDEV32.DLL A:\IBMDEV32.DLL
- C:\OS2\DLL\COURIER.FON A:\COURIER.FON
- C:\OS2\DLL\TIMES.FON A:\TIMES.FON
- C:\OS2\DLL\HELV.FON A:\HELV.FON
- C:\TRIDENT\SVGA.EXE C:\OS2\SVGA.EXE
- C:\TRIDENT\BVHSVGA.DLL C:\OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL
- C:\TRIDENT\IBMVGA32.DLL C:\OS2\DLL\IBMVGA32.DLL
- C:\TRIDENT\SVGA600\IBMDEV32.DLL C:\OS2\DLL\IBMDEV32.DLL
- C:\TRIDENT\WINOS2\WSPDSSF.DRV C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\WSPDSSF.DRV
- C:\TRIDENT\WINOS2\WSPDSF.DRV C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\WSPDSF.DRV
- C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\COURBGA.FON C:\OS2\DLL\COURIER.FON
- C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\TIMESBGA.FON C:\OS2\DLL\TIMES.FON
- C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\HELVBGA.FON C:\OS2\DLL\HELV.FON
- :OS2INI
-
- ----------------------------End-of-file---------------------------------------
-
- --------------------\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI-excerpt-----------------------
-
- [boot]
- sdisplay.drv=wspdssf.drv
- display.drv=wspdsf.drv
-
- [boot.description]
- display.drv=800x600x256 Small fonts 1M Trident
- sdisplay.drv=800x600x256 Small fonts 1M Trident
-
- ----------------------------End-of-excerpt------------------------------------
-
-