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Christopher M. Palmer writes:

   I was reading one of John Dvorak's columns in a PC magazine where he
   was discussing the joys and pitfalls of running OS/2.  In an
   annoyingly offhand remark, he says that OS/2 doesn't like Trident
   ET4000 SVGA cards.  I am about to purchase a system that has a Trident
   ET4K card in it.  While I am buying the machine to run Windows, I
   would like to keep my OS/2 options open.  What is this mysterious
   incompatibility problem?  Is it just a scarcity of OS/2 drivers, or is
   there something deeper?                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's just a driver issue.  I fault IBM for not having the driver ready
earlier, but you can run OS/2 in VGA mode with no trouble.  There are
drivers for ET4000, but in one way or another they're not the
full-fledged driver that can do seamless Windows and other things that
they should do.  I expect the full-strength driver will be out with the
September bugfix release (whatever they're calling it).  If you're
interested in OS/2, be sure to read the comp.os.os2.misc group.  ET4000
issues come up repeatedly there.

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com