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- Trident OS/2 Display Drivers
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- January 1995
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- Thank you for using Trident display adapter. This Trident OS/2 display
- drivers utility supports the following resolutions with OS/2:
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- 640x480x256
- 800x600x256
- 1024x768x256
- 1280x1024x256 (2M)
- 640x480x65K
- 800x600x65K (2M)
- 1024x768x65K (2M)
- 640x480x16.7M
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- This utility includes Trident OS/2 display drivers installation
- and Trident OS/2 display drivers setting.
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- Installation Procedure
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- 1. Insert Trident OS/2 Display Drivers Diskette in Drive A.
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- From the OS/2 Desktop:
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- Open the OS/2 System folder, double-click on the Drives object,
- and then double-click on Drive A (or from Launch Pad, click
- floppy drive object). When the Driver A folder opens, double-click
- on INSTALL.EXE.
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- From the OS/2 Command Line:
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- Open OS/2 System folder, double-click on Command Prompts, and
- double-click on either OS/2 Window or OS/2 Full Screen. Then, at
- the command line, go to driver A and type:
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- INSTALL.EXE
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- and press Enter.
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- 2. The first page of the installation program's window is screen
- resolution selection page.
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- . Select the resolution and color depth.
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- 3. The second page is monitor model selection page.
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- . Click Monitor Tab to go to this page.
- . Point to and click the down arrow button to show up the list of
- monitor models.
- . Select the monitor model. If you can not find your monitor's
- model, select "Default".
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- 4. The third page is refresh rate selection page.
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- . Click Refresh tab to go to this page.
- . The shown refresh rates are the recommended refresh rate for
- each resolution by your monitor manufacturer.
- . You can change the refresh rate by clicking corresponding down
- arrow button and selecting the refresh rate for corresponding
- resolution.
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- 5. The fourth page is frame buffer address selection page (Vesa
- Local Bus Adapter only).
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- . Click Desktop tab to go to this page.
- . Point to and click the down arrow button to show up the list of
- available frame buffer address (in unit of MBytes).
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- 6. After the selections, click Install button to complete the
- installation.
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- 7. Reboot OS/2 to have this installation take effect.
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- Display Drivers Setting Procedure
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- 1. Double-click Trident folder, and then double-click Display
- Setting object.
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- 2. To change resolution and/or color depth
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- . Click Screen tab.
- . Select the resolution and color depth.
- . Click Set button.
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- 3. To change refresh rate
- . Click Refresh tab.
- . Point to and click down arrow button.
- . Select the refresh rate.
- . Click Set button to take effect.
- . If you don't want the just selected refresh rate, click Undo
- button or press 'U' key to return to previous refresh rate.
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- 4. To change frame buffer address (Vesa Local Bus Adapter only)
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- . Click Desktop tab.
- . Point to and click the down arrow button to show up the list of
- available frame buffer address (in unit of MBytes).
- . Click Set button.
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- If you have selected to change resolution and/or frame buffer
- address, you must reboot OS/2 to have the changes take effect.
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- Note:
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- If you decide to change your hardware system configuration, like
- upgrading video memory or system memory, you should
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- . Change resolution to 640x480x16(VGA).
- . Change hardware configuration.
- . Reinstall Trident OS/2 display drivers.
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- You can add or delete monitor models by modifying TMONITOR.INF
- file in this utility diskette.
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- The format of each line in this file is:
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- . The monitor model and company name inside two double quote marks.
- . Four recommended refresh rates data for 640x480, 800x600,
- 1024x768, and 1280x1024 resolutions.
- . Four maximum supported refresh rates data for 640x480, 800x600,
- 1024x768, and 1280x1024 resolutions. If some resolution is not
- supported, put 0 for it.
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- Copyright Trident Microsystem, 1995, all rights reserved.