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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: seemless window support
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.054229.21983@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:42:29 GMT
- References: <726024198snx@kdrealm.linet.org> <1993Jan6.032845.15250@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan6.040842.8888@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1993Jan6.040842.8888@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>>> The Service Pak provides seamless Win-OS/2 support for Tseng
- >>>> 4000-based SuperVGA adapters. The OS/2 2.1 beta extends that support
- >>>> to numerous other SuperVGA adapters.
- >>> Which are the other "numerous other" supported adapters?
- >>ATI VGA Wonder series;
- >>Video7/Headland VRAM II;
- >>IBM 256c (Cirrus chipset, ThinkPad 700C);
- >>Trident TVGA;
- >>Tseng ET4000;
- >>Western Digital/Paradise.
- > Real ambitious. How many of those are more than a year *old*
- > (i,e., not even new when they were released)?
- > I take it this means that --
- > s3 (decent driver)
- > ss24x (i.e. Western Digital *accellerated*)
- > ATI mach 8 (working new) and 32 (new, working)
- > and 8514 (IBM's *own hardware*)
- > drivers are not supplied?
-
- The above are in addition to CGA, EGA, XGA, VGA, and 8514/A. CGA,
- EGA, and 8514/A do not (yet) support "seamless" Win-OS/2. It is
- doubtful that CGA and EGA ever will (since it wouldn't make much
- sense, anyway). 8514/A is being worked on.
-
- The Western Digital/Paradise chipsets are:
-
- PVGA1A, WD90C00, WD90C11, WD90C30, and WD90C31
-
- according to the Master Help Index in OS/2 2.1 beta.
-
- By the way, Orchid now has S3 drivers for 800x600-256 and
- 1024x768-256. (The 800x600 drivers will be available from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu shortly.) Nonseamless at the moment, granted.
-
- In this industry, with the SuperVGA-adapter-of-the-week, this isn't
- bad. IBM is supporting the older adapters directly because their
- manufacturers are not attentive to their older customers. The newer
- adapter are currently on the market, and the vendors should start
- writing the drivers. If a vendor does not, that vendor will be at a
- competitive disadvantage. (Market forces can work wonders. Witness
- the SCSI adapter support and the emerging sound card support, for
- example. Creative Labs has drivers and now suddenly everybody else
- wants to get them out ASAP.)
-
- Moral of the story: keep leaning on your adapter vendor. It also
- wouldn't hurt to support XGA-2, the last opportunity to create a fully
- extensible hardware standard for video on the PC that isn't brain
- dead (e.g. busmastering, extensibility, multiple monitor support).
-
- End of editorial. :-)
-
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