OSVIQVDS - SYS0008 STARTING DOS SESSION AFTER INSTALLING QVISION 2000 
VIDEO DRIVER
12/06/96

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SYS0008 Starting DOS Session after Installing QVision 2000 Video Driver
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DESCRIPTION

Attempting to start a DOS session results in a SYS0008 error message 
and the session does not start. WIN-OS/2 sessions are also unable to 
start. This occurs after installing the QVision 2000 Video Drivers for 
a Compaq system. This problem does not occur on OS/2 Warp version 3.

RESOLUTION

There are two possible workarounds:

1. Open an OS/2 Window or Full Screen Session.
   Type E CONFIG.SYS, then press Enter.
   Change the DEVICE=...\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
   statement to DEVICE=...\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS. 
   This allows DOS and WIN-OS/2 sessions to start in VGA mode.

2. Use the VSVGA.SYS from OS/2 Warp version 3. 
   This allows DOS and WIN-OS/2 sessions to start.  
   This file is not available publicly. It can be obtained
   from a system running OS/2 Warp Version 3, by contacting 
   technical support, or by unpacking the bundle DOS from the 
   OS/2 Warp Version 3 Diskette 3 into a temporary directory
   and then copying it over to the \OS2\MDOS directory. 
   To unpack the bundle, type:

   UNPACK DOS X:\TEMP, then press Enter.
   (where X:\TEMP is the path to a temporary directory)

The OS/2 Warp 4 level of VSVGA.SYS is not compatible 
with this chipset.

warp4
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