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Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:53:22 UTC, "Andy" <abwillis1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:34:01 UTC, "Alex Taylor" 
> <mail.me@reply.to.address> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:46:09 UTC, rfsenger@gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone knows any way to get DOS & WinOS2 window session working with eCS 
> > >with an ATI Radeon 9800 XT? This board, based in R360 chipset, is an 
> > >excellent board to work with SNAP, excellent overlay, but has the problem 
> > >with the not actualized VSVGA.SYS. I've already try load VSVGA.SYS with the 
> > >parameters /PCITRAP=08-0F /PCITRAP=10-2F /PCITRAP=E0-F3 /PCITRAP-F8-FB 
> > >/PCITRAP=100-113, individually and all together, without success. I've 
> > >already try change DEVICE=x:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS to 
> > >DEVICE=x:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS, and what I get is a back screen sayng "Mode 
> > >not Supported". Please, any other idea?
> > 
> > Try adding the switch:
> > /int10textgrfxsafe
> > to VSVGA.SYS in CONFIG.SYS and rebooting.
> > 
> 
> I had tried this setting before without success here but I just gave 
> it a try again and it did get rid of the unsupported mode message but 
> I just got either a black screen or a black screen with a flashing 
> cursor (which it probably did before) .  I found it would accept text 
> input when I typed exit and hit enter.  I tried the DOS video settings
> with no success but then suddenly the size of the window changed.  I 
> typed mode co80,25 and it went back to normal size and I could see the
> screen.  I added mode co80,25 to the bottom of autoexec.bat and now my
> DOS prompt is working fine on a Thinkpad W500 (using the Intel video 
> chipset as Panorama isn't able to drive the ATI side properly).  So 
> even though it is launching in what appears to be a normal mode 
> window, I am having to explicitely set mode to view the text in the 
> window.
> Andy
One other piece of information... if I switch the window to Full 
Screen then I have to run mode co80,25 again to see text input though 
Full Screen by itself has worked all along.  None of the DOS video 
settings have seemed to affect this.
Andy
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ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem rfsenger@gmail.com - 2013-01-23 14:46 -0800
  Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2013-01-23 19:34 -0600
    Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem "Andy" <abwillis1@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-24 04:53 +0000
      Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem "Andy" <abwillis1@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-24 05:00 +0000
    Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem rfsenger@gmail.com - 2013-01-24 15:31 -0800
      Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem "Andy" <abwillis1@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-26 02:19 +0000
  Re: ATI and winos2 & dos seamless sessions problem Renee Fernando Senger <rfsenger@gmail.com> - 2018-09-30 13:00 -0700

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