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- From: lkawecki@novell.com (Lewis Kawecki)
- Subject: Re: Supported SVGA cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.024117.852@novell.com>
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- References: <Bx9q39.75L@news.orst.edu> <sal8.147.721086800@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:41:17 GMT
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- In article <sal8.147.721086800@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >In article <Bx9q39.75L@news.orst.edu> gersta@gyro.ECE.ORST.EDU (Andreas Gerstlauer) writes:
- >>From: gersta@gyro.ECE.ORST.EDU (Andreas Gerstlauer)
- >>Subject: Supported SVGA cards
- >>Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:16:16 GMT
- >>I want to buy a 486 clone in the next time but at the moment I'm not
- >>quite sure which graphic card I should take. As I want to use OS/2
- >>with a better resolution than the standard VGA I was wondering if anybody
- >>could tell me what SVGA cards/chipsets and resolutions are supported by OS/2,
- >>especially with the SP or by the manufacturers and what will be supported in the
- >>near future (Is there a list with drivers/resolutions?). What about any of
- >>the accelerated chip sets (S3 ... or even the new mach32 from ATI)?
- >>I was thinking about a card based on the et4000 (1024x768x16?), a card with a S3
- >>chip or even the new ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (with the mach32 chip).
- >>Something else: I thought that I've read something about a standard for SVGA
- >> modes (VESA ?) so you don't need a driver for every different
- >> card. Is this true or did I get something wrong?
- >>
- >
- >Right now your best bets are et4000 based cards (as IBM will likely support
- >et4000 forever now since they sell them in PS/2s). No manufacturer has yet
- >provided drivers for any of the accelerated cards, and if you peruse headers
- >on here you may notice that there hasn't been much luck going on with ATI
- >cards.
- >[This is the viewpoint of a happy ET4000 user. If others have experiences
- >with other cards, feel free (as if I could stop you) to follow up.]
- >
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Steve Luzynski @ Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH
- >sal8@po.cwru.edu | voice calls cheerlessly accepted at x2153.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >track 2 'wish' on nin's _broken_. play it loud and often. experience the
- >joy of being me.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >time for another beer run. this time i mean it.
-
- I am not happy with the scroll rate of the ET4000 drivers. I am considering
- buying an ATI Ultra graphics + or pro. I don't understand what you mean
- when you say that ATI users haven't had much luck. One can always use their
- ATI card in 8514 mode which gives you 1024x768x256c. I don't see any problem
- with this. Who cares about seamless windows anyway.
-
- -Lewis Kawecki
- lkawecki@novell.com
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