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I am running Warp V4 without any fixpacks and am trying to get a new ET6000
video card to behave. The card is installed in the machine (P120, 32M RAM and
with Samsung 15GLe monitor) and operates correctly with Win95 and Win 3.1
which reside on other partitions.

My problem has evolved this way:

I installed the ET6000 and drivers for Win95 & Win3.1 on their respective
partitions without problems using the drivers which came with the ET6000.

I downloaded the latest drivers from IBM for Warp 4 & created the disk using
the loaddskf, printed the instructions and installed the driver using the
recreation of the SVGADATA.PMI procedure. The machine and the card then worked
perfectly - I could change screen size, pallettes etc without problem.

The only problem was that the machine would freeze (hard reset only to
recover) when I entered any WinOS2 program. After some thought I decided to
reinstall the drivers.

The problem I now face is that I get to the part in the installation program
where the "svga.exe on monitor" is run and everything stops. The screen goes
blank and the DOS Full Screen window appears with the sign on message from
svga.exe saying its version 2.51 and the program apparently hung. Recovery via
ctrl-esc and then closing the program is the only way to recover.

It appears to me that the problem may be that the svgadata.pmi file in the
c:\os2 directory is missing. I have tried to run the svga.exe in a dos full
screen with the same result as the previos paragraph. The command line options
I have tried are on monitor, on init and on dos, all with the same result. The
svga status produces a list of screen sizes and resolutions.

Any help guidance would be much appreciated.


Robert Eddy