Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards

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From: thompson
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:06

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In article <1992Jul28.173432.15706@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (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?
> 

Some of the newer ET4000 cards will go out of sync when you try to bring
up a DOS or Windows fullscreen or window in OS/2.  There is a fix 
available on the OS/2 ftp site (I think hobbes.??).

> -- 
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> |  palmerc@abulafia.b14.ingr.com  # better."                                  |
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Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
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Date: 28 Jul 92 19:06:53 CDT
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