chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) (11/28/89)
We have OS2 1.1 running on an IBM Model 60 with and 8514 video adapter
board. The monitor is the large-screen 8507. Everything is working
fine, but at VGA resolution. Does anyone how to run Presentation Manager
in higher resolution with this board?
- Gary Chapman, Academic Computing Facility, New York University
chapman@nyu.edusilver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) (11/28/89)
In article <20007@acf4.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) writes: >We have OS2 1.1 running on an IBM Model 60 with and 8514 video adapter >board. The monitor is the large-screen 8507. Everything is working >fine, but at VGA resolution. Does anyone how to run Presentation Manager >in higher resolution with this board? > > - Gary Chapman, Academic Computing Facility, New York University > chapman@nyu.edu It is necessary to change a few things, if I remember correctly. 1) Do you have the memory expansion kit for the 8514/A adapter? If the board isn't fully populated you can't use the higher resolution mode in OS/2. If so, I assume the jumper is already set correctly. 2) In your CONFIG.SYS, change the line which reads DEVINFO=SCR,VGA to read DEVINFO=SCR,BGA. 3) (Here's the tricky part!) You must boot under DOS, or lacking that, boot the original OS/2 installation diskette, and hit Esc to get out of the program to a OS/2 prompt. Change the directory to OS2\SYSTEM. I think that's the right one. Anyway, if not this one then find the OS2\xxx directory that has DISPLAY.DLL in it. There should also be in the same directory a file called IBMBGA.DLL. Do this: COPY IBMBGA.DLL DISPLAY.DLL DISPLAY.DLL has all the OS/2 video routines in it, and the installation program automatically figures out which one to use. Of course, if you then change things you have to fix this DLL manually as above. The reason you can't boot under OS/2 as normal to do this is because once it boots then DISPLAY.DLL will be open and the system won't allow you to overwrite it. Hence this roundabout procedure. This is the way IBM actually recommends you do it, the information is buried deep somewhere in one of those manuals that comes with OS/2. Not being able to overwrite DLL's, while necessary, is probably my biggest single gripe about OS/2. Hope this helps. Andy +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+
chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) (11/29/89)
Thanks for the response. However, when we do this, the machine will hang upon doing various normal things, e.g. try to bring up the control panel, or go the the file system and try to pull down a menu. We are missing something here, I think. Here is a copy of our config.sys file. Any thoughts? PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE C:\OS2\OS2.INI C:\OS2\CMD.EXE SET PATH=C:\SQLLIB;C:\CMLIB;C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\DLL SET DPATH=C:\SQLLIB;C:\CMLIB;C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\DLL LIBPATH=C:\SQLLIB;C:\CMLIB;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\ SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE SET PROMPT=$i[$p] BUFFERS=60 DISKCACHE=64 MAXWAIT=3 MEMMAN=SWAP,MOVE PROTECTONLY=NO SWAPPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM 512 THREADS=255 TRACE=OFF SHELL=C:\OS2\COMMAND.COM /P BREAK=OFF FCBS=16,8 RMSIZE=640 COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP CODEPAGE=437,850 DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSEB05.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS IOPL=YES DEVINFO=SCR,BGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\EGA.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM02.SYS SET SQLUSER=TESTSTTN
gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten) (11/29/89)
In article <20007@acf4.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) writes: >We have OS2 1.1 running on an IBM Model 60 with and 8514 video adapter >board. The monitor is the large-screen 8507. Everything is working >fine, but at VGA resolution. Does anyone how to run Presentation Manager >in higher resolution with this board? If you try MS-OS/2, SDK 1.06 or IBM OS/2, 1.1, the installation program automatically recognizes the 8514A-adapter and switches to the high resolution (1024 x 768), if the attached monitor allows it. With the 12 and 14 inch monitors they stay at the low resolution, but with the 8514-monitor it works. I don't have any experience with the 8507-monitor. Check out following points: - Cable and connector (the ability for the high resolution is coded in the connector) - Has your 8514-adapter enough memory? Perhaps this helps. +------------------------------------------------+ | Rainer Gerten | | University of Kaiserslautern | | West-Germany | | Mail: gerten@informatik.uni-kl.de | | Phone: 49(631)205-2510 | +------------------------------------------------+
kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) (12/06/89)
In article <20007@acf4.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman) writes: >We have OS2 1.1 running on an IBM Model 60 with and 8514 video adapter >board. The monitor is the large-screen 8507. Everything is working >fine, but at VGA resolution. Does anyone how to run Presentation Manager >in higher resolution with this board? > > - Gary Chapman, Academic Computing Facility, New York University > chapman@nyu.edu Hello ! I have an IBM 8514 on IBM's Model 80 up and running. When you only get VGA resolution with PM, then you don't have a 8514-monitor connected to your 8514! The culprit is the connector of the monitor! IBM has used coding which enables the 8514 to check what kind of monitor is connected - and there are three different monitors it will recognize: VGA monochrome VGA color 8514 HIRES. The default is VGA color. So if your monitor is capable of displaying 8514's high resolution of 1024 x 768, you have to configure your connector to 8514 standard. This is the same connector ( submicro 15 pin ), but different pins are connected. Best you buy a preconfigured cable. (The coding is acutally done within the connector and *not* by the monitor!). So long ... Oliver Kluge -- / relay.cs.net (CS-NET, ARPA) kluge%lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de@ - unido.uucp (UUCP) \ unido.bitnet (BITNET) TTTTTTUU MUMMMMMMMM Technical University Munich TTTTTTUU UMMMMMMMMM Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences SAB TT UU MU MM MM Laboratory for Parallel Computing TT UU UM MM MM Arcisstrasse 21 TT UU MU MM MM 8000-Munich 2 TT UUUUUM MM MM Federal Republic of Germany TT UUUUMU MM MM Vc +49 89 2105-2028, Fax +49 89 2800529 "Why stop now just when I'm hating it?" Marvin, the paranoid android / relay.cs.net (CS-NET, ARPA) kluge%lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de@ - unido.uucp (UUCP) \ unido.bitnet (BITNET) TTTTTTUU MUMMMMMMMM Technical University Munich