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- From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: SVGA install (was Re: Service Pak readme)
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <721075917lance.lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 18:51:57 GMT
- References: <6kRkTB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <1992Nov4.110026.27@dcs.simpact.com> <1992Nov5.054218.1090@ncsu.edu>
- Organization: none
- Keywords: Tseng SVGA CSD
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Nov5.054218.1090@ncsu.edu> stephen@ncsu.edu writes:
- >[With regard to installation of SVGA drivers]
- >Obviously, you did not read the whole thing. The next sentence
- >clearly states that the WELCOME folder is only on preinstalled
- >systems, if you have installed it yourself, you must type
- >dspinstl from the OS/2 command prompt. If people don't read it
- >themselves, maybe I'll just post that part of the README file...
-
- That's not what my README says. It says "To install the SVGA drivers
- on other computers, select the OS/2 System folder, select the System
- Setup folder, select the System folder, and then select the
- Selective Install object".
-
- I can fully understand confusion over this. I was confused too :-)
- The messages in this group had alerted me that I should use
- Selective Install. However, I wasn't prepared to be asked for
- Disk 6 of my original OS/2 pack. A search of messages confirmed
- that this was correct, but each time it prompted for another
- disc, I was still worried I was overwritting stuff that had just
- been updated.
-
- It worked, and I'm running the 800x600x256 drivers on my Swan
- Tseng 4000 card. After some months of stability, I've had two
- trap 000D crashes :-( Both when trying to run a combination
- of Win3 apps seamless and DOS or OS/2 apps. No crashes today,
- touch wood ...
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- _______ Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
- //// ZL2AJH Wellington, New Zealand
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