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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: SVGA ON fails... why?
- Message-ID: <93Jan09.045822.29711@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 04:58:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.004932.16694@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <C0GGqL.1vH@hfglobe.intel.com>
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- In article <C0GGqL.1vH@hfglobe.intel.com> chris@hfglobe.intel.com (Chris Houghton) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.004932.16694@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> jwty@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >>The trouble is that I can't seem to get SVGA ON to work. When I try it,
- >>the result is:
- >>
- >>C:\OS2>svga on
- >>
- >>SVGA: PMI File Generator (v1.01).
- >>Usage: SVGA <ON | OFF>
- >
- >I had this problem. I checked setup and my Video BIOS was based at E0000.
- >I set the base to C0000 and that fixed it.
-
- Interesting. Mine *is* at C0000, but in a DOS session under OS/2,
- SVGA ON does not work. If I run VESA.COM, then it works, but does not
- correctly identify the board as an ATI OEM.
-
- If I boot DOS (a true DOS), then it works. But even if I move the file
- then produced to my HPFS D:\ partition, to D:\OS2, the whole thing
- still doesn't work (it did before I applied the Service Pack.)
-
- BTW, I got one of those ATI OEM that say VGA1024, BIOS V5-1.00,
- 1988 vintage, with 512 k.
-
- (And BTW**2, anybody knows what kind of SVGA do those new IBM Value Point
- (or whatever) use?
-
- Luc B
-