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In <1992Nov7.231239.27501@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:

> 
> 
> 	*Sigh.*  My install of OS/2 was going so well, too.  I
>installed the general release of OS/2, and then placed the CSD atop of
>it without incident.  I was really impressed with the speed and
>multitasking of the system.  So I decided I would go ahead and install
>the 800x600x256 Tseng driver.  I successfully negotiated the Welcome
>folder mystery, and appear to have successfully installed the hi-res
>driver.   
>	
>	The *Problem* is one I alluded to in an earlier question.  I
>have a generic Tseng board that relies on a peice of software to set
>it into its various modes.  One of the most important of these modes
>from my standpoint is one which changes the refresh rate of the card
>to a lower one than is the default.  See, I have a relatively old
>multisync monitor; it only goes to 800x600, and (I think) at 60 hz ( I
>use the command "vmode 35k".  In DOS, I would simply run the program
>in my autoexec bat file if I intended to use 800x600 Windoze.   
> 
>	Failure to set this switch properly, in Windows and OS/2,
>results in a violently swimming screen, totally unreadable, once the
>graphics (in my case, the OS/2 desktop) appear on the screen. And if I
>recall my previous Windows misery with this problem, once the screen
>is screwed, running the program doesn't help. 
> 
>	So what I need, ideally, folks, is a way of having OS/2
>calling this little DOS utility BEFORE it initializes its desktop.  I
>am certain that if we can do this, everything will look OK (though the
>screen is fairly messed up, I can see windows changing if I hit
>alt-esc and so on.   There _has_ to be a way to do this -- please
>help!!! 
> 
>	Barring that, I am going to need some way to remove my
>"failed" driver and returning to a usable screen.   
> 
>	Oh, yeah -- one big thing working in our favor.  I formatted
>under the normal FAT arrangment, with Dual Boot.   I _can_ get at my
>files and utilities right now.  
> 
>	Help gratefully accepted!! 

>  	An almost-very satistfied user of OS/2 2.0!


Hey, the solution is in the new README that came with the CSD.
Make a startup.cmd file that contians

start /fs /dos setmode.bat

then a dos batch file setmode.bat which contains

c:\video\vmode 35k
exit

Check the README file. Its a little beeter explained and has better
spelling tham I.

My $0.02 worth. This time it might actually be worth 2 cents!!
Doug.
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PS. I don't think you have to undo your changes. Just boot to does to do the 
editting. I guess.........