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In article <CB.92Jul28163753@tamarack13.timbuk> cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
> 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

There are ET4000 drivers on hobbes.nmsu.edu, but they are really crapy. The
colors are really messed up. Everything has a green tinge to it. And they
are SO slow, and have major problems re-updating the screen. This is one of
the contributing reasons why I de-installed OS/2 from my machine. From what
I have seen this operating system has almost NO support from third party
vendors. If you get everything from IBM you are ok, but don't even try to
get anything from another company, it'll be a pain to get it to work. That,
and the problem that the user interface to OS/2 is totally non-consistant
and makes no sense. 

Anybody want to buy a used copy of OS/2 2.0? :-)

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