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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: WIN-OS2: installing fonts for WPW safe?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.205918.15778@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:59:18 GMT
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- In article <ignacij.716152892@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
- >dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >
- >>In article <ignacij.716141022@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
- >>>I am running WordPerfect for Windows in WINOS2. It is working fine, but the
- >>>VGA resulution is too poor. I would like to install drivers for at
- >>>least 800x600. There are 2 problems:
- >>>1. OS/2 Help warns agains installing WINOS2 drivers not included with OS/2,
- >
- >>Really? I don't remember seeing this. Oh well. My 800x600x256
- >>desktop seems to work fine.
- >
- >>>2. The drivers I know have no update instructions. For sure,
- >>>the WINOS2 desktop does not provide any automated any procedure.
- >>>Summarizing, do third-party SVGA drivers work reliably in WINOS2, and how
- >>>to install them?
- >
- >>Some work and some don't. ATI has some new drivers out. They are
- >>available where ATI drivers are normally found. I thought they were
- >>at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but I couldn't locate them in teh obvious places.
- >
- >>If you must, you can download them from the ATI BBS.
- >
- >I think I did not express myself well. The PC runs the ATI 800x600 driver
- >well, but the WINOS2 session runs at VGA resolution. My problem is to
- >make such changes that the Windows desktop works at 800x600 (or higher) too!
- >I though that this could be accomplished by installing Windows ATI
- >drivers in WINOS2. The ATI video driver for WINDOWS needs to be
- >installed by the Windows setup program. The WINOS2 setup program does not
- >have an option of installing new video drivers.
- >On the other side, are OS/2 SVGA drivers applicable to WINOS2?
-
- No, I read you just fine. There were some bugs in ATI's Windows
- drivers. They have been patched, though. The current release of the
- ATI Windows drivers will work with WIN-OS2 full screen sessions. I
- run WIN-OS2 in 800x600x256 mode.
- --
- |) David Charlap "LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket,
- /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
- ((|,) patience."
- ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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