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- From: jdh@email.sp.paramax.com (John Hatlestad)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: tri32new.zip & ATI Ultra
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:00:16 -0600
- Organization: Paramax - Eagan, MN
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- Help!
-
- I am trying to get the drivers in the file "tri32new.zip" from
- ftp-os2 to work with my ATI Ultra with no success. Up to now, I have
- been using the standard 8514 drivers supplied with os2. I have
- installed the service pack and am running the 32-bit graphics engine.
-
- I have tried a number of times to install these (carefully following
- Steve Withers' ammended instructions), but when I reboot, I
- get a blank screen. On one iteration, os2 printed an error message
- (maybe it was error #355?) about incompatible display driver or VIO, or
- some such when WPS should have come up. Other iterations have produced
- a blank screen with an underline cursor in the upper left, and with
- c000005 in the upper left. In all cases a power-down boot was
- required.
-
- Questions:
-
- Is it worth the bother for ATI Ultra owners who aren't really chomping at the
- bit for seamless win-os2 drivers? Will the performance be better or
- worse than with the 8514 drivers? I am currently experiencing
- intolerably slow scrolling in PMX xterm windows and wanted to try these
- drivers to see if it would improve.
-
- These drivers are supposed to work with the Ultra, aren't they?
-
- I tried installing them right over the 8514 driver with no success, then
- went back and installed the standard vga drivers, and tried to install
- these svga drivers on top of that, with the same result. I also tried the
- svga option in the os2 selective install, hoping to install the tri32new
- drivers over whatever svga drivers come with os2+sp, hoping this step
- would at least get my config.sys mostly right. When I tried to install
- the os2+sp drivers the selective install program printed an error
- message about not being configured to install "%s" (sic), before asking
- for the device driver disks.
-
- How much mucking around with config.sys, etc., is required? I changed
- that line with "......(bvhvga)" to ......(bvhvga,bvhsvga), and I changed
- the reference to vvga into a reference to vsvga.
-
- Should I just be patient and wait for IBM to do a 32-bit 8514 driver,
- or for ATI to do a 32-bit driver for the Ultra?
- Will such drivers be available in os2 2.1?
-
- Correspondence with someone who has gotten this to work (perhaps
- containing appropriate config.sys statements, etc.) would be greatly
- appreciated.
-
- Thanks,
- John Hatlestad
- jdh@email.sp.paramax.com
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