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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.112042.15572@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:20:42 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <5759@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1822@vall.dsv.su.se>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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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.
- >
- > /Harald
- >
-
- The TSENGFIX.ZIP readme says that it is only a problem with Tseng cards latter
- than a certain batch number.........
-
- Is that the point at which Tseng no longer implemented standard VGA with 100%
- compatibility? Trident cards work just fine as do Realtek and many
- others........
-
- It is Tseng's problem.
-
- Steve
-
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- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | September 19, 1992, then you
- withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz | must like things the way they
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | are.....can I live with YOU?
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