Through many months, I have struggled with configuring my video card with OS/2 Warp.  At the
heart of my difficulties was a misunderstanding, which allowed me to almost get it working.
I am writing this to help out anyone who has similar problems.  Let me caution you that all
I have is advice, and it may not apply to your situation.  Please treat this as you would
a forum message, just a little bit longer.

A. Background
     My video card is a Gateway Rocket.  The card came set up for Windows for Workgroups,
     using the 640x800 configuration.  The  chip set is the Western Digital WD90C33, and it
     uses a VESA local bus.  Of crucial significance was a line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
     "x:\VGA\VGAMODE 72 60NON-INTERLACE".  (I will use the letter "x" to represent a drive
     logical.)  There is limited documentation on this utility, specifically on the
     parameters used in AUTOEXEC.BAT.

     I installed OS/2 Warp on this computer shortly after its release.  There were two
     problems: a limit of 256 colors and no seamless Windows.  The latter problem was the
     most serious to me, and I tried two approaches to solving it.

     Video driver after video driver, I tried them all.  Particularly, I haunted the
     OS2SUPPORT and OS2USER forums.  The latest drivers were the worst of all.  Nightmares
     are made of such stuff: charcoal on black color schemes.  One shudders.  Not only did 
     they produce nightmares, but none of them solved the problems.

     I thought there be something wrong with the parameters themselves.  I tried it every 
     which way from Sunday.  I used the defaults for the display type.  I tried the utility
     without any parameters, using the menu of display parameters.  I tried the utility with
     a number of different various parameters.  Nothing seemed to work.
     
B. Temporary Success
     What finally jarred things loose was a suggestion from a fellow user.  (A apologize for
     forgetting his name.)  After all the work with the VGA mode switch utility, it was the
     VESA utility that was required.  I suggest that if you have not tried VESA.EXE yet,
     you go to the original Warp driver.  You can always try one of the new ones; they have
     not impressed me.  

C. A Set Back
     I don't know what happened next, but after the booting up, I was back to the seamless
     lockup.  Re-installing the video driver fixed it up again, but booting up reverted to
     the failure mode.  I certainly could not re-install the video drivers each time I
     turned on the machine. 

D. At Long Last
     Fortunately, I noticed that the video drivers for WINOS2 did not seem to be changing.
     About all that I could do is re-install support for DOS and WINOS2.  This did the trick.
     1) Re-install DOS and WINOS2 support.
     2) Change the video setting to something different.
     3) Change the video setting back to the desired value.
     4) Re-boot.

     You may not need this last procedure.  Heaven knows, I don't know why I needed it.
     All I can do is tell you what I saw.  If any of this helps you to run your seamless
     windows, then I have returned the favor of the friendly soul who gave me the key hint.
     As an added bonus, I can now choose a video mode with 64K colors instead of 256 colors!
     How sweet it is.


				Rick Humburg
				74653.1725@compuserve.com
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