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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.190653.41955@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:06:53 CDT
- References: <1992Jul28.173432.15706@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Jul28.173432.15706@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
- > I was reading one of John Dvorak's columns in a PC magazine where he
- > was discussing the joys and pitfalls of running OS/2. In an
- > annoyingly offhand remark, he says that OS/2 doesn't like Trident
- > ET4000 SVGA cards. I am about to purchase a system that has a Trident
- > ET4K card in it. While I am buying the machine to run Windows, I
- > would like to keep my OS/2 options open. What is this mysterious
- > incompatibility problem? Is it just a scarcity of OS/2 drivers, or is
- > there something deeper?
- >
-
- Some of the newer ET4000 cards will go out of sync when you try to bring
- up a DOS or Windows fullscreen or window in OS/2. There is a fix
- available on the OS/2 ftp site (I think hobbes.??).
-
- > --
- > | Christopher M. Palmer # There are two kinds of fool. One says, |
- > / Intergraph Corporation # "This is old, and therefore good." And \
- > \ Huntsville, AL # one says, "This is new, and therefore /
- > | palmerc@abulafia.b14.ingr.com # better." |
- --
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- | Charles A. Thompson | thompson@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu |
- | CS Student, University of Kansas | thompson@ukanvax.cc.ukans.edu |
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