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In <Pine.HPP.3.91.950518123337.28837A-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu>, Lisa's pet <honge@creighton.edu> writes:
>On Fri, 19 May 1995, Kevin Lincoln wrote:
>
>> I've managed to install warp but when it startsup I get 2 horizontal spilt screens.
>> The top part of one and the bottom part of the other.		
>
>Classic symptom of driver not matching the video hardware.
>
>> I have a trident vga screen with 1mb.
>> When I did the install it thought I had a EGA but I don't.
>> IF I choose another from the dialog box I still get a spilt screen.

I missed the original post, but as someone who installed Warp on a
Trident 8900D yesterday, I can perhaps add some helpful comments. One 
problem that sometimes arises is that the SVGA ON command, issued when
you try to install using defaults for the adapter, hangs the system 
with either a blank or rolling screen. If that is the case, you can 
either:

1. Run SVGA ON under DOS (SVGA ON DOS) to create a SVGADATA.DOS file, 
then copy it to the \OS2 directory as SVGADATA.PMI. Then, to avoid 
SVGA.EXE running, overwrite it with some other harmless program (I 
simply copied LS.EXE, a directory utility, to \OS2\SVGA.EXE). Then run
DSPINSTL or the Selective Install utility. Or:

2. Create a SVGADATA.PMI as above, but then give the command

    RSPDSPI /PK:SVGA /SK:NONE /S:A: /T:C:\ /MC:2

where the /T: above should reference the target system boot drive.

Be advised that the IBM-supplied PSTRID.DSC and TR768BC.DSP files 
contain some syntax errors and need a little fiddling, as well, and 
that the 8900D is not supported officially.

--- Les

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