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- From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Subject: Re: DISPLAY.DLL always busy (installing new drivers)
- Message-ID: <pk09qs8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- References: <9209071549.AA02739@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:49:09 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- Kenneth A. Kahn (KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM) writes:
- >In <1992Sep7.095952.3792@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- >>I just got the new Tseng4000 drivers from Hobbes, but I am having
- >>trouble installing them. The system will not allow me to replace
- >>DISPLAY.DLL in the DLL folder since it is perpetually in use.
- >>How do I get around this?
- >>
- >
- >You will have to BOOT your system either from a Floppy Disk or an alternate
- >Partition. To do it from Disk, see if you can get a copy of BOOT20.ZIP and
- >use the SE20BOOT program to create a single BOOTable OS/2 V2 1.44" disk.
-
- Or you can insert a new directory at the beginning of your LIBPATH list in
- config.sys. Put the new drivers there, and reboot. You're now running the
- new drivers. If you share a driver with DOS, put them on that drive. Then
- if there are problems, boot DOS, and remove the files.
-
- I do this, and it's very handy!
- --
- Paul Close pdc@sgi.com ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc
-
- No fate but what we make
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