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From: Mahoney@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 8514a
Message-ID: <473.284F2253@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 7 Jun 91 04:44:15 GMT
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In an article of <4 Jun 91 20:28:49 GMT>, mg15@prism.gatech.EDU (Glynn,Mike) writes:

 GA>using windowsso I'm sure I can get the same using os/2. What am I 
 GA>overlooking?
 GA>config.sys contains:
 GA>     set video_devices=vio_ibm8514a
 GA>      set vio_ibm8514a=device(bvhvga,bvh8514a)

  You may have already thought of this, but there's another line in the config.sys file that says something like:

DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
            ^^^
This means VGA support. Replacing it with BGA means 8514A support.
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