Trident 9400 video adapters

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Last update: 26th February, 1996

Symptoms

Difficulty installing TVGA 9400 series video adapters, or loss of sync in DOS windows.

Hardware

Trident 9400 series video adapters

Problem

After changing display resolutions, the SVGA.EXE and VSVGA.SYS are copied from the OS/2 CD/diskettes, overwriting Trident's special versions of these binaries.

Procedure

After installing the Trident 9400 drivers, copy svga.exe and vsvga.sys into the x:\os2 and x:\os2\mdos directories respectively.

Notes

In fact, you can bypass the whole installation problem with the special Trident drivers and just copy the svga.exe and vsvga.sys into the locations specified above. Then install the 8900 drivers provided by OS/2 install. I noticed that this cured my problem with the System object too: when I installed the 9400 driver diskette, it used to take forever to open this object for some reason. The only minus is that you don't get 16-color drivers. Who needs 'em!

Stephen Eickhoff