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From: mikew@athena.mit.edu (Michael B Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HELP!!
Keywords: SVGA
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.203427.9375@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 90 20:34:27 GMT
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In article <1990Jun1.043759.16650@bigsur.uucp>, andrzej@bcars268.uucp
(Andrzej Bieszczad) writes:
|> In article <9570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> deisenb@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu
(David I Eisenberg) writes:
|> >WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!  I uudecoded the SVGA driver which was posted here
|> >and tried to install it... well, it told me that it needed the file
|> >SV800.GR2 or something like that, so it failed instalation...  no biggie,
|> 
|> I wonder how did you do this, since I failed to undecode the file
|> using PKXARC. Should I use something else? I have never done it before,
|> could you describe what is the procedure? (I used X-modem to bring
|> the file from SUN to PC, I stripped the text - as indicated by "cut
|> here", merged two parts and used PKXARC).
|> 
|> Maybe it is my luck? (knowing what happend to your system).

>I saved both part-1 and part-2 of the messages to files on disk, then
>used cat to append part-2 to the end of part-1.  Then, used the program
>uudecode (available on most UNIX machines....) which created the .ARC
>file.  Then, I used Kermit in IMAGE mode to download it to my PC.
>After that, I used PKXARC v3.5 to unARC it.  I got a CRC failure, but
>the file looks intact.  Anyone else get a CRC error?  Anyone else get
>it TO WORK??  (We're talking about the 800x600 driver for Win 3.0 names
>sv800.arc in this group.)

I successfully uudecoded the driver after first removing everything outside
of the "cut here" lines inclusive (as well as all headers) and combining the
two files.  I used pkxarc on it, and it expanded into two files: the
driver and a
readme file.  The readme file doesn't give complete directions, so I ran
Windows Setup, and I got the "you need SV800.GRB" message.

Since that didn't work, I tried the desperate approach:  I copied the SV800.DRV
file over the VGA.DRV file (backing the latter up first, of course). 
After making
the documented change to WIN.INI, I ran Windows--and it worked!  Now I
have glorious 800 by 600 graphics, and I like Windows 3.0 even better!  Give it
a try again; its worth it.  The readme file mentions Paradise and one
other board,
but the driver should work as long as you have the mode number of your card.
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