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From: robk@cpqhou.uucp (Rob Kiesler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 8514/A & ISA-Bus
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.151741.16310@cpqhou.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 91 15:17:41 GMT
References: <248.279429fd@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
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in article <248.279429fd@mbcl.rutgers.edu>, goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu says:
> 
> 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.
> 
You also need to unpack BVH8514A.DLL and place it in your LIBPATH, as well as 
modifying the BVH statements in your CONFIG.SYS to use it.


Rob Kiesler
Compaq Computer

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