Re: System Upgrade Problems

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From: Gary Woodman
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:00

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On 14 Jul 1995 brharris@umr.edu wrote:

> In <3tdc8a$fe0@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis) writes:
> >George Vlahoulis (s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
> 
> >> PS: is there a way to change the video driver without having os2 accessing that 
> >> dos program which determines the hardware? I cant change my video driver I am 
> >> stuck with vga and 16 colors.
> 
> I had this problem and called OS/2 tech support.  Their answer:  open a 
> full screen DOS session and run svga.exe -status in the \os2 directory.
> This will tell you the chipset of your display card.  Then, if the EXACT 
> chipset is not supported within OS/2, you must get the drivers from the
> manufacturer.
> 
> Of course, in order to access svga.exe, you must get your DOS session problem
> fixed first.

SVGA.EXE is a dual-mode program which will also run in "real" DOS... now 
where did I put that DOS 5 boot floppy? :-)

Gary
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From: Gary Woodman <gwoodman@pcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: System Upgrade Problems
Date: 1995/07/17
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