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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Will my OS800.DLL for OS/2 1.1 work with os/2 2.0?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.050316.20286@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <lestrade.726259107@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:03:16 GMT
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- In article <lestrade.726259107@Ra.MsState.Edu> lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:
- >I am running os/2 on my pc with a clone Paradise vga card connected to
- >an old NEC multisync. Along with the card came a diskette with a driver
- >for 800x600 for os/2 version 1.1. The instructions say to copy the
- >driver called os2800.dll to the os2/dll directory and overwrite the file
- >called driver.dll. The problem is that when i boot os/2 and open a dos
- >window, the file driver.dll is locked (in use by another task...or
- >something) when i boot directly to dos (using boot mgr), the os/2 files
- >on drive D (hpfs) are, of course, not reachable. Any comments would be
- >appreciated.
-
- Not likely. However, if you have 512K on the adapter, you can get
- 640x480-256 and 800x600-256 with the new OS/2 2.1 beta (or with the
- leaked generic SuperVGA driver, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu). If you have 1 MB, you can also get 1024x768-256.
-
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