From: sparapan@flash.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing)
Subject: Profile for 800x600x256 Trident SVGA driver with seamless winos2
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:40:21 GMT

I decided to post this after I had some difficulty in installing the 
800x600x256 SuperVGA driver for my 1M Trident card on top of the 
32 Bit Service Pack Graphics Engine.  Firstly, I had great difficulty
finding the correct drivers.  The Service Pack documentation suggested
a method for installing 16-bit drivers, but this was not what I got the
Service Pack for in the first place.  I located the drivers known as
"/pub/archives/os2/drivers/tri32new.zoo" on "ftp.usask.ca".  I'd like to
thank Kevin Lowey for making them available on his site and putting them
in a useful format ".zoo".  The drivers themselves were provided by
Steve Withers from Trident who I must thank for the free drivers and the
good work.  

One of the problems that I encountered was largely mental.
The methods of OS/2 1.3 and OS/2 2.0 GA for installing display drivers
have been some what abandoned for the Service Pack.  You no longer have
a profile and you don't replace "display.dll", "vga.drv", or "swinvga.drv"
with the new drivers.  The "config.sys" needs no modification
either.  The only file you have to modify is the WINOS2 "system.ini" (see
below).  The reason there is no profile is that no one has written one.
No one until now that is.  I have included a profile for 800x600x256
resolution with seamless windows support.  

Another problem is that some of the Trident utilities no longer work
while others are very helpful.  The utilities came from hobbes;
"ftp-os2.nmsu.edu" in the directory "/pub/os2/2,0/drivers".  The 
utility "tvgacrtc.sys" will crash your system.  The utility "polarity.com"
has no effect.  The "deskman.exe" and "dispinfo.exe" utilities worked
perfectly.  The "smode.exe" utility works for both DOS and OS/2
environments for some modes; I found the modes starting with 5 worked best.

To use the profile it assumes that you have un-zoo-ed your
files in the directory "C:\TRIDENT", that you want to make backups of the
key files onto "A:" and that your operating system is based at "C:\OS2".
I should also thank IBM for the cheap upgrade and the Internet for 
allowing us to use this bandwith.  I hope this is helpful.  By the way,
I think you'll be pretty impressed with the 256 color driver.  Check out
fractint plasma or spider.

Rodney

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:TITLE
Trident 800x600x256 with Seamless Windows Support
:CONFIG
:FILES
C:\OS2\SVGA.EXE                 A:\SVGA.EXE          
C:\OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL          A:\BVHSVGA.DLL
C:\OS2\DLL\IBMVGA32.DLL         A:\IBMVGA32.DLL
C:\OS2\DLL\IBMDEV32.DLL         A:\IBMDEV32.DLL
C:\OS2\DLL\COURIER.FON          A:\COURIER.FON
C:\OS2\DLL\TIMES.FON            A:\TIMES.FON
C:\OS2\DLL\HELV.FON             A:\HELV.FON
C:\TRIDENT\SVGA.EXE             C:\OS2\SVGA.EXE
C:\TRIDENT\BVHSVGA.DLL          C:\OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL
C:\TRIDENT\IBMVGA32.DLL         C:\OS2\DLL\IBMVGA32.DLL
C:\TRIDENT\SVGA600\IBMDEV32.DLL C:\OS2\DLL\IBMDEV32.DLL
C:\TRIDENT\WINOS2\WSPDSSF.DRV   C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\WSPDSSF.DRV
C:\TRIDENT\WINOS2\WSPDSF.DRV    C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\WSPDSF.DRV
C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\COURBGA.FON    C:\OS2\DLL\COURIER.FON
C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\TIMESBGA.FON   C:\OS2\DLL\TIMES.FON
C:\TRIDENT\FONTS\HELVBGA.FON    C:\OS2\DLL\HELV.FON
:OS2INI

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[boot]
sdisplay.drv=wspdssf.drv
display.drv=wspdsf.drv

[boot.description]
display.drv=800x600x256 Small fonts 1M Trident 
sdisplay.drv=800x600x256 Small fonts 1M Trident

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