

Alliance Promotion OS/2 drivers 

Release 1.0    6 Feb 1995

Installation 

To decompress:

pkunzip os2alsc

From an OS/2 Window or OS/2 fullscreen session, enter

setup [drive]

where [drive] is an optional parameter which specifies 
the drive on which OS/2 is installed.

Example: if installing from a floppy,

a:setup 


Notes

1. Installing under OS/2 2.1 may require a full installation of OS/2,
   for certain minor versions of OS/2 2.1 .

2. The disk must be labeled "PROMOTION 1".

3. The following resolutions are listed in the System Setup and
   can be selected:

    640 x  480 x 256        640 x 480 x 65536       640 x 480 x 16777216
    800 x  600 x 256        800 x 600 x 65536       800 x 600 x 16777216
   1024 x  768 x 256       1024 x 768 x 65536                 
   1280 x 1024 x 256
   1600 x 1280 x 256

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    Attention ! - Limitations for 1MB-Board !
   -------------------------------------------------
   
   The installation software doesn't care if you have 1MB or 2MB memory on
   your graphic board. Even if there is only 1MB on board, all the resolutions
   listed in the OS/2 System Setup are selectable. But only the 2MB-Board will
   work with all of them.
      
   With 1MB DRAM on your board are ONLY the following resolutions usable:

    640 x  480 x 256        640 x 480 x 65536
    800 x  600 x 256        800 x 600 x 65536
   1024 x  768 x 256

   Selecting the other resolutions is possible but will not work correctly.
   It's recommended to avoid this.
      
   With the Alliance 3210 2MB graphic board all the listed resolutions are
   working.
   
4. It's not possible to make any selection about the used monitor type.
   The maximum vertical refresh is 60 Hz.

5. This driver does not support a software color cursor.
   Select the button "Default" on the page "Mouse cursor" in the notebook
   "Mouse", which is located in the folder "System configuration".

6. When you switch an open DOS-Box to Fullscreen you might see nothing 
   but a black screen. After switching back to Box-size the display is normal 
   again.

7. Running the program Paintbrush and using its fill-function may cause the
   system to hang or to give you an error statement.

8. With a colour deepth of 16.7M colours AVI-files are not played correct.
   If the AVI-Box is moved, it will not be displayed with  the right colours.
   (Clippingproblems) 