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In article <34vu63$7hp@news.xs4all.nl>,
Talkie Toaster <martijn@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>Can anyone help me with my video problem?
>
>I have OS/2 2.1 for Windows for more than two months now and I am having a
>lot of troubles with configuring it for my Tseng ET4000 board. There are
>multitudes of ET4000 drivers around, but none work with my board. On the
>Dutch OS/2 BBS they have drivers for the ET4000 W32i, for the Genoa
>ET4000 card and some more. I have tried all of these, but after
>painfully installing them (I had to "make" about 8 copies of the OS/2
>disks first; the damn thing keeps asking for disks, which is very handy
>if you bought the CD-ROM version of OS/2 2.1 for Windows) and rebooting
>the computer the screen ends up black and wobbly (or blue and wobbly)
>and I can go back to painfully setting the system for VGA again.

For my Diamond SpeedStar 24 (an ET4000 based board with 1 meg), I have to 
do thusly:

Make the display driver diskettes from the CD ROM.
Open a full screen DOS session and run "SVGA OFF"
Run VMODE.COM (That's a utility from Diamond for setting the card up to work 
with my monitor. You will need to use your equivavlent utility.) to adjust 
the synch/refresh settings.
Open an OS/2 command line session.
Run DSPINSTL.
Choose "Install using display utility" (or words to that effect. DO NOT 
choose "Install using monitor defaults" (or words to that effect.
Feed disks as requested.
Shut down.
Reboot.

Worked fine for me for over a year. Doesn't work for Warp/2, but hey, 
that's not release level code anyway. It should work for OS/2 for Win.

Joe
Team OS/2
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