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- From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.105928.10132@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 10:59:28 +1200
- References: <65761@hydra.gatech.EDU> <unruh.713646010@physics.ubc.ca> <16AUG199215451072@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <16AUG199215451072@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>, cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > 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. :)
- >
-
- S3 reckon they will have theirs out by the end of the week. (Or so they say,
- I've heard them say this before). But why somebody (I would if I had the time)
- doesn't write a PD version of the S3 drivers if there are so many wingers out
- there saying S3 doesn't do this, I don't know. After all, S3 distributes their
- S3 developement kit for free (ncludes code, manuals etc), and the Presentation
- driver stuff is available from IBM, if you purchase the OS/2 toolkit. (Thats
- how I got mine, along with the 32-bit GRE).
-
- > Srikanth
- --
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- | Hamish Marson <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz> OS/2 |
- | Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
- | University of Waikato, |
- | Hamilton, New Zealand. |
- |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the |
- | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers |
- | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) |
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