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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.195926.8641@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Aug 92 19:59:26 GMT
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  13. In article <unruh.713646010@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
  14. >gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
  15. >
  16. >>As a consolation- the 32-bit GUI is supposed to ship w/ many SVGA drivers for
  17. >>popular boards. With luck the S3 chipset will be among them.
  18. >
  19. >I thought that IBM stated that OS2 GA shipped with many video drivers
  20. >for popular boards.
  21.  
  22. It currently ships with drivers for all IBM standard boards.  Third
  23. party vendors didn't get drivers shipped to IBM in time to be
  24. included.  Right now, I think only Trident has proper OS/2 2.0 drivers
  25. available anywhere.
  26.  
  27. IBM includes: CGA (640x200x2), EGA (640x350x16), VGA (640x480x16),
  28.               8514/a (1024x768x256), and XGA (1024x768x256)
  29.  
  30. Others are provided by the hardware manufacturers.  It's likely that
  31. IBM will include them in future GA distributions, as well as in the
  32. corrective service pack.
  33.  
  34. BTW: does anyone know if S3 is even bothering to develop drivers for
  35.      their chipset?
  36. -- 
  37.    |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  38.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
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