From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat Mar 07 1998 - 23:36:53 EST
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.
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