HP Laptop video configuration.
Steve
A few weeks ago my laptop booted up with the video reset to VGA 16
colors and the Desktop mostly reset. It is an HP OmniBook 800 CS with
Neomagic graphics. In the past, just reinstalling the video drivers
using an HP/Neomagic driver diskette worked to get 800 x 600 256 colors
which was my preference. This time that did not work. While the video
changed, it didn't allow for any mode setup, and mostly seemed to be a
ugly variant of VGA. (?) Tried restoring an archive, which did not
help.
After a series of install / reset to VGA cycles, using both the
diskette and selective install, I tried Henk's CLEANINI utility, which
reported fixing some entries in the INI files. Then an install
installed the driver only allowing a 640 x 480 x 65536 color mode, with
a second page in the system object saying that other video modes exist,
but that the monitor did not support the refesh rates. In a "normal"
install, it should allow that mode and 640 x 480 and 800 x 600 x 256
color modes. And I don't recall a second page, though I would have had
no reason to note that it existed before.
Deleting various configuration files, or editing them (VIDEO.*,
SVGADATA.*, MONITORS.DIF), does not seem to be productive. I can get
rid of the second video setup page, or lock the system up. SVGA.EXE
reports an unsupported chip set. And using MAKEINI to recreate OS2.INI
and OS2SYS.INI just got rid of the remaining Desktop setup. WinOS2
is still happy at 800 x 600 FWIW (or was last I looked about half way
through this). So currently I can get 640 x 480 in 16 or 65536 colors.
Any helpful suggestions before reformatting and reinstalling Warp 4?
The current system is at Fixpack 14, and before MAKEINI, was otherwise
behaving. I _could_ survive with OS/2 in 640 x 480 x 65536 colors, as
DOS and WinOS2 still work, but it is quite ugly and less productive.
Thanks in advance,
Steve N.