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On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Victor Kress wrote: > >Connect up a monitor such the the LCD is off. Then from a FULL SCREEN > >DOS session run "svga on". You will then find under the system setup > >notebook that other (higher) resolutions are available. > > > >Select one and reboot. > > Do not do this if you are using video features disk v.1.33!!!! > > I just did, and scrambled video on my tp750 in a big way. If you are on a monochrome 750, it is more complicated. The status of the video (high-performance or not) makes a big difference. I found that if I installed the video drivers in hi-per mode (i.e. LCD or CRT only, can't do simultaneous), switching high-performance off scrambled my LCD. Likewise, if I installed the drivers with hi-per off, switching it on scrambled my LCD. This is a bug in the OS/2 drivers and the way they interact with the mono LCD. Apparently there are so few of us mono OS/2 users that IBM doesn't feel it's worth the effort to fix this bug (it's been there for over a year). Note that toggling the hi-per mode will not take effect until you reboot, and switching hi-per off will disable all SVGA resolutions on a CRT except 640x480. Since I almost never needed the simultaneous display but wanted SVGA on a CRT, I opted to install with high-performance on. Then the procedure Scott described works beautifully AS LONG AS YOU DON'T TURN HIGH-PERFORMANCE BACK OFF. Disclaimer: I haven't used OS/2 for several weeks so I may be wrong about the exact details. I do know for a fact though that one of the Thinkpad video settings will toggle your mono LCD from normal to scrambled depending on what mode it was in when you installed the video drivers. It took me several reinstalls of OS/2 and the video drivers to map out exactly when it happens, and of course I never wrote it down. :) ___________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim "A common mistake that people make when trying to design jokim@mit.edu something completely foolproof is to underestimate the jokim@tuna.mit.edu ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams