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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: So how do I get 256 colors now?
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:18:02 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <sal8.155.721343882@po.cwru.edu>
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- In article <1689913C30.CJR10@CCCVM.CCC.AMDAHL.COM> cjr10@cccvm.ccc.amdahl.com (Chris Russell) writes:
- >From: cjr10@cccvm.ccc.amdahl.com (Chris Russell)
- >Subject: So how do I get 256 colors now?
- >Date: 9 Nov 92 06:29:03 GMT
- >Well the service pack installed just fine. Now the problem I'm
- >working on is trying to get 640x480x256 on my ET4000 (Renoir)
- >card. I don't have a Welcome folder. If I go into System Setup
- >it says that I'm running SVGA, but I don't see on option
- >anywhere there for changing the screen resolution (or tell me
- >what I'm running now, which I presume is 640x480x16). The
- >README's all talk around this. Would one of you experts who have
- >figured this out give me a clue or two?
- >
- Open a DOS _WINDOW_. Type SVGA OFF. Close the window.
- Run Selective install. Put a check mark in the primary display box. (Yes I
- know it already says SVGA. Do it anyway.) Click OK. Click OK to the little
- message box that comes up. You'll now get a completely new an exciting
- dialog that lets you pick a res. Follow the prompts from here out.
-
- If that doesn't work, jump up and down and scream and rip out your
- incompatible video card and stomp on it. Then go buy a Radius XGA-2 card and
- tell me if it is worth the money. :)
-
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- Steve Luzynski @ Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH
- sal8@po.cwru.edu | voice calls cheerlessly accepted at x2153.
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- current mental status: more or less at peace with the world, all things
- considered.
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- this post was written while i should have been doing homework. therefore,
- you are indirectly responsible for my current gpa, such as it is.
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