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Can anyone help me with my video problem?

I have OS/2 2.1 for Windows for more than two months now and I am having a
lot of troubles with configuring it for my Tseng ET4000 board. There are
multitudes of ET4000 drivers around, but none work with my board. On the
Dutch OS/2 BBS they have drivers for the ET4000 W32i, for the Genoa
ET4000 card and some more. I have tried all of these, but after
painfully installing them (I had to "make" about 8 copies of the OS/2
disks first; the damn thing keeps asking for disks, which is very handy
if you bought the CD-ROM version of OS/2 2.1 for Windows) and rebooting
the computer the screen ends up black and wobbly (or blue and wobbly)
and I can go back to painfully setting the system for VGA again.

Now, I was under the assumption that the ET4000 board is one of the most
used and popular SVGA boards. Why is it then, that I can't find a single
driver for it? I also tried the ET4000 drivers that came with the
package, they don't work either, I called the Dutch IBM Helpdesk and
they told me that the ET4000 drivers supplied with the package were for
"on board configurations" only, ie: for ET4000's that are placed
directly on the motherboard. Very usefull! I bet there are more "on
board configurations" around than plug in cards...NOT! And no, they
could not help me to a proper driver either. They could help me to a
generic 800x600x16 SVGA driver, but that's not what I want. Under DOS
and Windows my board supports 256 glorious colours, why can't it be also
under OS/2? 16 colours is yukky, I might as well go back to using a
Commodore 64! I don't see how IBM could call OS/2 a professional system
if they allow users of one of the most popular video boards only 16
measly colours. So is there anyone who has a Tseng ET4000 driver for OS/2
2.1 for Windows or knows a FTP site that has it? You would be doing me a
great favour!

Yours sincerely,

Marty Janssen

P.S. WHICHVGA.EXE, a DOS utility that comes with the graphic file viewer
     VPIC.EXE shows the following setup for my board:

EGA and VGA display detected.
This is a VESA board with the following modes:
Mode 100h:  640 x  400 x 256   colors,  8 Bits/pixel,  1 Planes,  64K Gran
Mode 101h:  640 x  480 x 256   colors,  8 Bits/pixel,  1 Planes,  64K Gran
Mode 102h:  800 x  600 x  16   colors,  4 Bits/pixel,  4 Planes,  64K Gran
Mode 103h:  800 x  600 x 256   colors,  8 Bits/pixel,  1 Planes,  64K Gran
Mode 104h: 1024 x  768 x  16   colors,  4 Bits/pixel,  4 Planes,  64K Gran
Mode 105h: 1024 x  768 x 256   colors,  8 Bits/pixel,  1 Planes,  64K Gran
The display board has SuperVGA capability with a Tseng ET 4000 VGA chip.
There appears to be 1M of memory installed.
This board is supported in SuperVGA by VPIC.

P.S. Please mail me at martijn@hacktic.nl, I don't read these groups often!