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On Sat, 7 Mar 98 07:38:06 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: ><<I'm surprised that IBM can't even make drivers to support their own operating sy >stems. > >What video chipset is on the 770 anyways? >And what PCMCIA chipset does it have? > >Have you tried the IBM's OS/2 device driver website? >>> > >If you are surprised, it probably means that you don't know how the driver >business works. In the WIndows/95 world, Microsoft absolutely does NOT >go building drivers for all the different video cards. They rely on >manufacturers to do this. Okay, so I was semi-surprised. I mean, MS bribes a lot of companies to use their stuff, so I wasn't surprised, but with IBM, I am surprised because it's THEIR machine, and OS/2 is THEIR OS. > >This is one of the dynamics that Micrsoft uses to dominate the field. Among others which should only be discussed in private email, as some will get offended. These >days, many video board manufacturers simply provide a Win95/NT driver, and >don't release any technical details, making it completely impossible for >other operating systems to support the hardware. This is getting to be a >worse and worse problem. > >For OS/2, it is indeed the csae that since manufacturers consider the >OS pretty much dead for client use (the big source of revenue for video >cards -- servers don't need fancy video), they don't bother to make >drivers, or don't bother to carefully update them, and it is a big >problem! > >Yes, of course we have looked for the latest driver, there is no update >available. > It is a shame though, and that IBM doesn't correct the problem. It seems also that if the specific chipset manafacturer is too lazy/stupid to create a driver, then you'd think that the next party down the line (IBM, since they integrated it onto their MB) should make the driver. Of course, maybe this is a beta driver. I remember that I had to wait a release or two before the 65K color driver for OS/2 (CT65545) came out. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Sent from my P75 Server The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 25 Processes with 92 Threads. This machine's uptime is 2d 23h 13m 6s 625ms.