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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashproof? NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172150.19107@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:21:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.184700.6364@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Nov16.034053.639@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <&c#@byu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <&c#@byu.edu> earlyd@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Early) writes:
- >>I have an SVGA video chip. I tried to install an 8514 driver just to
- >>see what would happen. When I booted my computer, OS/2 2.0 would not
- >>load. (The 8514 driver is not compatible with an SVGA chip).
- >WAIT A MINUTE!
- >I have a Trident 8900C w/1meg, and I assume that this is a SVGA
- >chip set. I also installed the 8514 drivers from Hobbes that
- >give 1024-768 resolution and have been impressed and
- >how much FASTER this driver is compared to the old 800-600
- >Trident driver retrieved from hobbes about 3 months ago.
- >I'm not sure I agree that 8514 drivers don't like SVGA chips...
- >I think the drivers have to emulate the 8514 better...
-
- Don't get confused. The "8514/A" driver that Trident has released
- only means that it provides 1024x768 in 256 colors with large icons.
- That's it. A Trident adapter is not coprocessed, not particularly
- speedy, and not from IBM, and the driver won't make it that way. But
- it will make it vaguely resemble an 8514/A display.
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