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- From: nsus_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Nick Susch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.124629.6046@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 12:46:29 GMT
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- In article <CB.92Jul28163753@tamarack13.timbuk> cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
- > 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? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > It's just a driver issue. I fault IBM for not having the driver ready
- > earlier, but you can run OS/2 in VGA mode with no trouble. There are
- > drivers for ET4000, but in one way or another they're not the
- > full-fledged driver that can do seamless Windows and other things that
- > they should do. I expect the full-strength driver will be out with the
- > September bugfix release (whatever they're calling it). If you're
- > interested in OS/2, be sure to read the comp.os.os2.misc group. ET4000
- > issues come up repeatedly there.
- >
- > Chris Brewster
- > cb@cray.com
-
- There are ET4000 drivers on hobbes.nmsu.edu, but they are really crapy. The
- colors are really messed up. Everything has a green tinge to it. And they
- are SO slow, and have major problems re-updating the screen. This is one of
- the contributing reasons why I de-installed OS/2 from my machine. From what
- I have seen this operating system has almost NO support from third party
- vendors. If you get everything from IBM you are ok, but don't even try to
- get anything from another company, it'll be a pain to get it to work. That,
- and the problem that the user interface to OS/2 is totally non-consistant
- and makes no sense.
-
- Anybody want to buy a used copy of OS/2 2.0? :-)
-
- --
- They say there is strangeness too dangerous | /\/ick Susch - U. of Rochester
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