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- From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
- Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.215938.27567@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: UNLV Computer Science
- References: <5759@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1822@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 21:59:38 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1822@vall.dsv.su.se> harald@vall.dsv.su.se (Harald Fragner) writes:
- >usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Greg Granger) writes:
- >:
- >: I a bit p*ssed, after all in IBM's docs it clearly states that os\2
- >: works with Tseng based video cards. THIS IS NOT TRUE. It doesn't work
- >: with ET3000 based cards (well) and a seperate patch is required to get
- >: it to work with ET4000 based cards. This certainly suggests that they
- >: did not testing on this type of card. Someone, decided that there were
- >: a lot to Tseng based cards out there so ... they 'claimed' it would
- >: work. Normal people call this a lie, car salesmen call it a deal and
- >: corporations consider this SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
- >
- >Well I've used two Tseng cards and never had any problems with any verison
- >of OS/2. One ET-3000 card in VGA mode (no SVGA drivers for ET-3000) and
- >ET-4000 in VGA and SVGA modes. Maybe I'm lucky because I had original
- >Tseng cards and not some clone manufacturer who bought the chips and
- >f*cked up compatibility.
-
- Well, I have a Tseng ET-4000 from some clone manufacturer who bought
- the chips and f*cked up compatability and it STILL works <SEG>. And
- no, I haven't installed the ET-4000 patches. I think that Greg need to
- check out the README file. Try putting the card in 8-bit mode, etc,
- even though I didn't have to do this, mine is running in 16-bit just
- fine, some people have had to...
-
- TTYL - Steve
-
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- Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
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