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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:07:06 PDT
From:	"Gary Wong" <wonggd@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video driver install problem

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Rocky:

According to the IBM Device Driver Pak website, there's a driver there (filename is
OS240026.ZIP). Go to
http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/Driver+Profile+Web/OS240026.ZIP?Open
Document.

I'm surprised you don't want to try SciTech Display Doctor (either the full version or the
IBM version)?

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:47:05 PDT, mrakijas wrote:

Now it's the video
>
>card drivers that are giving me trouble. The card
>
>itself is an 8 MB S3 Trio 3D/2X based card. I've
>
>had good luck with S3 cards in the past, at least
>
>when I wasn't choosing a Matrox card.
>
>So, I found the latest, greatest video drivers
>
>appropriate for the chip. The file was called
>
>20001ENG.ZIP, specifically claims support for the
>
>Trio 3D/2X, is version 2.00.01 and was released
>22 Jun 1999. I ran the SETUP.CMD file (yes, I read
>
>the readme first). It recognized the fact that the
>
>Warp version reported is newer than 2.4 (i.e. Warp
>
>4) since I have FixPak 14 in the machine and warned
>
>that it may not be appropriate. Of course, this
>
>should be no problem so I proceeded. Files get
>
>copied but once it's actually trying to install the
>
>video drivers to get used, it soon errors out. The
>
>best I can tell, the command file can't run
>
>DSPINSTL.EXE (mostly since DSPINSTL.EXE won't run
>
>from the command line either) but I'm not sure why.
>
>There might be a dependence on SVGA.EXE but SVGA.EXE
>
>otherwise runs and generates an SVGADATA.PMI file as
>
>you would expect. Below is the snippet of code from
>
>the CMD file doing the install (for reference) that
>sets up the parameters for DSPINSTL.EXE. I can read
>
>enough of the command file that I verified that all
>
>the previous stuff, mostly file copying type stuff,
>
>executes as expected. I think the CMD file is
>
>irrelevant - why won't DSPINSTL.EXE run from the
>command line? Please don't suggest SDD, though.
>
>I'm not ready to start futzing around with that yet
>
>- that's a future experiment. As before, thanks
>
>again in advance for any ideas you might have.
>
>-Rocky
>
>call unpack 'prereq.pk2' trg||'\os2\svga.exe'
>call saylog "Starting OS/2's display install
>
>program..."
>say ''
>/* set up parameters for dspinstl.exe */
>call stream log, 'c', 'close'
>dspinstl = trg||'\os2\install\dspinstl.exe'
>dspsrc = right( src, 1 )
>if (dspsrc <> '\') & (dspsrc <> '/') then
> dspsrc = src
>else
> dspsrc = left(src, length(src)-1) /*
>
>dspinstl: no trailing slash */
>dspopt = '/pk:other /sk:none /s:'dspsrc' /t:'trg
>if os2ver = 2.11 then do
> dspdsc = '/pd:'src'S3MISC1.DSC'
>dcmd = dspinstl dspopt dspdsc cid
>rc = lineout(log, dcmd)
>''dcmd
>end
>dspdsc = '/pd:'src'PVIRGE.DSC'
>dcmd = dspinstl dspopt dspdsc cid
>

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