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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
- Message-ID: <16AUG199215451072@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 23:45:00 GMT
- References: <65761@hydra.gatech.EDU> <unruh.713646010@physics.ubc.ca> <1992Aug13.074422.17119@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug13.200955.27485@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.200955.27485@news.Hawaii.Edu>, ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes...
- >
- >And why 90% of us are pissed off since we own SVGA cards which blow away VGA,
- >XGA, and 8514/a, but which IBM decided to do an asinine job of supporting.
- >Everytime someone asks "How do I get drivers for an ET-4000 card" I launch a
- >long description of all the arcane things I had to do to get mine working; I
- >should just publish it weekly as an addendum to Tim's FAQ. IBM $%^&ed up on
- >the SVGA support; don't bother trying to defend them.
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- Fear not, I hear the 32-bit GRE has Tseng 4000 drivers. I personally think
- that chipset makes like S3 are either too lazy or too incompetent to write
- drivers and blame IBM, but that's just my opinion. :)
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- Srikanth
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