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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 8514/A & ISA-Bus
Message-ID: <248.279429fd@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 14:25:00 GMT
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In article <6578@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>, rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
> Does anyone successfully use the WD/Paradise 8514/A Plus card in an
> ISA-Bus machine with OS/2 ?
> 
> I got such a card and although it works well with Windows 3.0 it does
> NOT work with OS/2 (IBM 1.2) until now. It has the memory upgrad to 1MB
> installed which is required for OS/2.
> 

There are directions (already posted in this newsgroup) from Western 
Digital on how to install the Paradise 8514/A card and use it with OS/2 1.2.
Similar information is also contained in the IBM OS/2 1.2 manual; it's a
question of unpacking the right device driver, and then naming it 
DISPLAY.DLL, and then modifying config.sys.

IBM's OS/2 1.3 recognises the 8514/A card and installs the correct driver
for it without user intervention.  The card also continues to work fine.

By the way, Windows 3.0 under OS/2 1.3 is faster than under OS/2 1.2

			Adrian Goldman

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