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From: phillipd@antares.cloudnet.com                     27-Aug-99 22:58:13
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 03:31:24
Subj: GRADD 79 and ATI Xpert 98

From: Phillip Davenport <phillipd@antares.cloudnet.com>

Successful installation of GRADD 79. DDC2 monitor automatically selected.
Driver refresh rates up to 75 Hz..

Nasty bus contention issue..

  p


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From: jrop@st.jyu.fi                                    28-Aug-99 04:52:07
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:13
Subj: Matrox G400 & dual-head

From: Janne Ropponen <jrop@st.jyu.fi>

Is the Matrox G400's dual-head feature supported in the OS/2
drivers?


 - Janne

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From: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            28-Aug-99 07:08:03
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:14
Subj: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

From: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>

I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow, 
so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this 
level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked out
the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there. 

I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
great 65K works much better. 

Any help out there?
Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.    		- Internet:  drowelf@vnet.net
IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer 	- IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
'Already where I want to be Today 	- Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'


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From: sctvguy@netcenter.net                             28-Aug-99 18:10:20
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 05:35:21
Subj: Newer Matrox Drivers

From: Bob Grimes <sctvguy@netcenter.net>

I am running a Mystique 220, 4megs with the original drivers that came
on the CD, 2.13.  They give me excellent resolutions and color.  What I
am wondering, why do people constantly keep installing newer drivers? 
Do these new drivers add features to the card?  I have no problems with
the card, and am getting up to 1280x1024 at 16million, if I want it.  Is
it just the need to "upgrade"?

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From: KendallB@scitechsoft.com                          28-Aug-99 14:56:24
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 10:42:24
Subj: Re: xfree86 and sdd

From: KendallB@scitechsoft.com (Kendall Bennett)

In article <7ou36o$nev$1@hop.gmd.de>, veit@mail.gmd.de says...

> SDD and XFree86 are two different shoes. One has nothing to do with the
other.
> There is no correlation between PM drivers and XFree86 support. Your card
> is simply unsupported by XFree86.

Except that we are working on getting our Linux support for XFree86 moved 
across to XFree86/2 so that we can ship working binaries with our 
drivers. That way users of XFree86 on OS/2 can get it working well with 
any card that we support for PM.

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From: maxikins@os2bbs.com                               28-Aug-99 23:08:23
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 10:42:25
Subj: Re: Newer Matrox Drivers

From: maxikins@os2bbs.com (Mark Klebanoff)

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:10:41, Bob Grimes <sctvguy@netcenter.net> 
wrote:

> I am running a Mystique 220, 4megs with the original drivers that came
> on the CD, 2.13.  They give me excellent resolutions and color.  What I
> am wondering, why do people constantly keep installing newer drivers? 
> Do these new drivers add features to the card?  I have no problems with
> the card, and am getting up to 1280x1024 at 16million, if I want it.  Is
> it just the need to "upgrade"?
> 

I've upgraded for a long time.  I don't see any added functions, and 
the original drivers worked fine for me.  You're right- in that 
setting the best advice should be "if it ain't broke, then don't fix 
it"  Of course, when I upgraded the video card from a Millennium II to
a G-200, I needed a driver that supports it.

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From: dtander@agts.net                                  29-Aug-99 03:58:07
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:07
Subj: Re: Matrox g400

From: dtander@agts.net (David T. Anderson)

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:44:04, robrien@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

> Thanks for your answer, but the card has other features
> like DVD decoding (I think) and dual-head displays.  Are these 
> supported?

If they are, nobody around here has mentioned it.  If such 
capabilities were there, I think someone would have noticed by now.  I
suppose these things MIGHT  come along in a future release, but like 
the OpenGL support, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to 
appear.  Dual-head display is more likely than DVD decoding, I would 
think... 

David T. Anderson
Calgary, Alberta
http://www.agt.net/public/dtander/

Using ProNews/2 for OS/2 Warp

**NOSPAM**  To email me, remove the 's' from my address...

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From: lazydogbbs@yahoo.com                              29-Aug-99 06:51:24
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:08
Subj: Re: Refresh rate with Gradd 0.80

From: lazydogbbs@yahoo.com (lazydog)

I posted another note where I had installed GRADD.080, at first
everything seem to be ok but the more I looked I was not so
pleased. 
Graphics were a lot slower even though the refresh rate was
higher. I switched back
to the ATI drv. 

..Seth


In message <37c4e757$2$xfhayrl$mr2ice@news.sk.sympatico.ca> -
Skree@stubble.jumpers writes:
:>
:>In <7q24a3$man$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net>, on 08/26/99 
:>   at 01:12 AM, lazydogbbs@yahoo.com (lazydog) said:
:>
:>
:>Q}I have a Xpert@Play, I have never tried the GRADD drivers at all.
:>
:>Q}At the present time I do not have any video problems at all, except that
:>Q}I would like to
:>Q}change the refresh rate. I noticed you folks said the 0.79
:>Q}version worked. Can you tell me where I can find
:>Q}this older version. And do you have any video problems say for instance
:>Q}with Full Screen DOS or OS/2 session
:>
:>Q}I tried SDD and it sucked, messed up full screen dos and os/2 sessions
:>Q}with my video card.
:>
:>Q}Thanks
:>
:>Q}....Seth
:>
:>I have an Xpert@work.
:>
:>get the gradd ver 080 files from the DDpak site.
:>
:>They work wonderfully well.
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>-- 
:>-----------------------------------------------------------
:>Kenn Sunley
:>MR/2 ICE ver 1.60 reg'd
:>Date: 1999.08.26
:>Time: 01:05:09 - -0600
:>
:>Warp 4
:>233Mhz PII
:>ATI Xpert@work
:>Gradd Rocks - thank you IBM
:>-----------------------------------------------------------
:>




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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             29-Aug-99 17:59:12
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
display

fdisplay.drv
and sdisplay.drv

to the old 1024x768x16M colors.

One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
> all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow,
> so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this
> level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
> screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
> trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
> of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked
out
> the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there.
> 
> I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
> great 65K works much better.
> 
> Any help out there?
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             29-Aug-99 18:05:15
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 16:52:17
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
display

fdisplay.drv
and sdisplay.drv

to the old 1024x768x16M colors.

One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000 that uses the NeoMagic 2200 chipset. Now
> all works fine at 1024x768x16M colors, but the video response is a little
slow,
> so I cranked it down to 65K colors. OS/2 Video is much snappier at this
> level, but the WinOS2 stuff will no longer start. Both seamless and full
> screen sessions just hang with no display output. I tried using the 'Win /B'
> trick to find out what the problem is, but the BootLog shows normal loading
> of stuff, until the display.drv driver where it appears to die. I checked
out
> the Win.Ini and System.Ini and can not see anything wrong there.
> 
> I'm preplexed. Although 16M colors looks great the video perf is not that
> great 65K works much better.
> 
> Any help out there?
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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From: bradboot@ibm.net                                  29-Aug-99 18:11:15
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:10
Subj: Re: Matrox G400 & dual-head

From: "Brad Boot" <bradboot@ibm.net>

No Dual Head, No DVD, and poor drivers for the first go around.

Brad

Janne Ropponen <jrop@st.jyu.fi> wrote in message
news:7q7ptu$diu$1@mordred.cc.jyu.fi...
> Is the Matrox G400's dual-head feature supported in the OS/2
> drivers?
>
>
>  - Janne


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From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi                             29-Aug-99 13:46:20
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: Re: Refresh rate with Gradd 0.80

From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi (Dominique Pivard)

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:12:35, lazydogbbs@yahoo.com (lazydog) wrote:

> change the refresh rate. I noticed you folks said the 0.79
> version worked. Can you tell me where I can find
> this older version. And do you have any video problems say for

ftp://ftp.math.bme.hu/pub/os2/drivers/graddbb.dsk

(on the IBM site, you'll find only 0.77 and 0.80)

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From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi                             29-Aug-99 12:00:12
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: problem installing SDD beta 6 with Matrox Mystique 220 4MB

From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi (Dominique Pivard)

I decided to try for the first time the SDD drivers. I installed them 
on my Warp 3 / FP40 system, which has a Matrox Mystique 220 4MB.

"setup sdd" ran OK but I got a TRAP 0006 (exception in device driver 
sddhelp$) when rebooting. The uninstall procedure also resulted in a 
trap ;-).

So I ended up switching to VGA and reinstalled the Matrox drivers 
(2.23.082), which have been working fine for me, except for the 
Hauppauge Primio / StWTV combo (garbled image).

Any particular tip about the SDD installation procedure? The Mystique 
is listed as a supported card, so it should work OK.

Thanks, Dominique

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From: uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de                          30-Aug-99 00:22:23
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: Matrox G400 problems

From: uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Hi folks!

I bought a Matrox G400, but I have some problems with this card!

When starting the computer, the BIOS (Award) reports "Warning: SPD not found
in DIMM(s) 1". Does anybody know what this means? Is it a hardware defect????

When starting OS/2, the system hangs (with the Matrox drivers installed) on 
starting up (only half of the background bitmap is displayed and the the
system
crashes ... :-(
When I boot OS/2 Warp 4 AFTER starting WIN95, OS/2 works all right!
What could that be??? I don't want to start 95 first, when I want to work
with Warp!!

Does anybody have the same problem?? PLEASE help me!

Thanks for your answers!

Bye!

Andi

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From: wrightc@dtcweb.com                                29-Aug-99 21:37:23
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:12
Subj: How do I install Matrox's !@#$% BIOS update???

From: "Christopher B. Wright" <wrightc@dtcweb.com>

Ok, here's the problem:

I'm trying to upgrade my Matrox G400 Max card to the latest Bios (1.04, I
believe). The thing is, I can't seem to expand the .exe file that I've
downloaded from Matrox's official site. I keep getting a "cannot run exe in a
DOS session" message, as well as a win-os2 session opening (It will only go
away when I kill the session in Process Commander).

I've downloaded this stupid thing about five or six times, and I get the same
the result. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? Do I need a windows OS
installed just to upgrade the BIOS on this stupid card?

Thanks for any help...


Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
     - Edward Young


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From: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            29-Aug-99 20:57:21
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:13
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

From: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:59:25 +0200, Martin Bunzel FH wrote:

>You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
>display
>
>fdisplay.drv
>and sdisplay.drv
>
>to the old 1024x768x16M colors.
>
>One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
>did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
>colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
>in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)
>
>Martin

That did not work too well. Setting the colors to 65K and the
WinOS2 Settings to 16M results in corrupted WinOs2 Display.

Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.    		- Internet:  drowelf@vnet.net
IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer 	- IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
'Already where I want to be Today 	- Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'


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From: yaztromo@idirect.com                              29-Aug-99 23:54:13
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:13
Subj: Re: problem installing SDD beta 6 with Matrox Mystique 220 4MB

From: Brad Barclay <yaztromo@idirect.com>

Dominique Pivard wrote:

> I decided to try for the first time the SDD drivers. I installed them
> on my Warp 3 / FP40 system, which has a Matrox Mystique 220 4MB.
>
> "setup sdd" ran OK but I got a TRAP 0006 (exception in device driver
> sddhelp$) when rebooting. The uninstall procedure also resulted in a
> trap ;-).
>
> So I ended up switching to VGA and reinstalled the Matrox drivers
> (2.23.082), which have been working fine for me, except for the
> Hauppauge Primio / StWTV combo (garbled image).
>
> Any particular tip about the SDD installation procedure? The Mystique
> is listed as a supported card, so it should work OK.

    I installed the latest beta just tonight on my ATI XPert@Play 8Mb AGP
system running OS/2 WARP Server for e-business, and they are working
flawlessly (and quite a bit quicker than the ATI GRADD drivers at that).
I didn't do anything special to install them - I just ran "setup sdd" as
you did.

    Note however that previous versions of the driver didn't work so well
for me.  Supporting several video cards at once probably means that quite
a bit of complex debugging needs to be done on these drivers, and bugs
that exist for one card may not exist for another.  Patience may be your
only help here :P.

Brad BARCLAY


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From: giprice@ibm.net                                   30-Aug-99 04:26:04
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:13
Subj: Re: How do I install Matrox's !@#$% BIOS update???

From: giprice@ibm.net

I used WinZIP to unZIP the exe file into a new directory.

In <jevtugpqgpjropbz.fh98iy0.pminews@news.rdu.bellsouth.net>, "Christopher B.
Wright" <wrightc@dtcweb.com> writes:
>Ok, here's the problem:
>
>I'm trying to upgrade my Matrox G400 Max card to the latest Bios (1.04, I
>believe). The thing is, I can't seem to expand the .exe file that I've
>downloaded from Matrox's official site. I keep getting a "cannot run exe in a
>DOS session" message, as well as a win-os2 session opening (It will only go
>away when I kill the session in Process Commander).
>
>I've downloaded this stupid thing about five or six times, and I get the same
>the result. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? Do I need a windows OS
>installed just to upgrade the BIOS on this stupid card?
>
>Thanks for any help...
>
>
>Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
>"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
>     - Edward Young
>
>

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From: driepon@nospam.POBoxes.com                        30-Aug-99 18:46:29
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:13
Subj: Re: How do I install Matrox's !@#$% BIOS update???

From: Dennis Riepon <driepon@nospam.POBoxes.com>

G'Day,

First, use something like 'UNZIP' to extract everything from the
BIOS_104.EXE file.
Once the files have been successfully unzipped, from a dos window run
the UBIOSDOS.EXE which should be in the bios_104 directory.

regards
Dennis Riepon


Christopher B. Wright wrote:
> 
> Ok, here's the problem:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my Matrox G400 Max card to the latest Bios (1.04, I
> believe). The thing is, I can't seem to expand the .exe file that I've
> downloaded from Matrox's official site. I keep getting a "cannot run exe in
a
> DOS session" message, as well as a win-os2 session opening (It will only go
> away when I kill the session in Process Commander).
> 
> I've downloaded this stupid thing about five or six times, and I get the
same
> the result. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? Do I need a windows OS
> installed just to upgrade the BIOS on this stupid card?
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> 
> Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
> "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
>      - Edward Young

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From: p.engels@gmx.de                                   30-Aug-99 13:34:27
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:13
Subj: Re: problem installing SDD beta 6 with Matrox Mystique 220 4MB

From: "Peter Engels" <p.engels@gmx.de>

On 29 Aug 1999 12:00:25 GMT, Dominique Pivard wrote:

>I decided to try for the first time the SDD drivers. I installed them 
>on my Warp 3 / FP40 system, which has a Matrox Mystique 220 4MB.
>
Could you please tell me, where to get the SDD driver. I read a lot about
this driver and it seems to be interesting. But I have no idea from I can
download this driver.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
MfG / Regards

	Peter Engels

This OS/2 system uptime is 0d 0h 30m 58s 195ms


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From: wrightc@ubersoft.net                              30-Aug-99 08:06:00
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:13
Subj: Warning for people upgrading to G400 from other Matrox cards

From: "Christopher B. Wright" <wrightc@ubersoft.net>

This is just based on my experience, and I can't guarantee that the solutions
I provide are legit, but you might find this helpful.

I was upgrading from a Matrox Millenium II to a G400 Max. I finally managed
to update to the latest bios and I'd installed the latest drivers, but when I
booted up, as soon as the computer tried to load the WPS my monitor lost all
video signals from the card! For some reason, my video card would not
transmit information to my monitor at all, the monitor kept flashing "loss of
sync" messages on its screen.

The problem _may_ have been that when I had the Millenium II, Dialog Enhancer
copied the pmgax64.dll file (to modify the icon sizes) and kept it stored in
the c:/os2/deprog/dll directory. Because that's situated ahead of the
c:/os2/dll directory in that particular config.sys line, it was loaded first.

Deleting all traces of the old pmgax64.dll file seemed to fix the problem.

So if you've used older Matrox cards, check tos ee if any old versions of the
pmgax64.dll are hanging around in other directories. If there are, delete
them. That may solve a few of your problems.

Everything seems to be working ok now on my machine...


Chris Wright (wrightc@ubersoft.net)
http://ubersoft.net
+----
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"


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From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca                           30-Aug-99 13:46:28
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:26
Subj: Re: problem installing SDD beta 6 with Matrox Mystique 220 4MB

From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca (Lorne Sunley)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:34:55, "Peter Engels" <p.engels@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 29 Aug 1999 12:00:25 GMT, Dominique Pivard wrote:
> 
> >I decided to try for the first time the SDD drivers. I installed them 
> >on my Warp 3 / FP40 system, which has a Matrox Mystique 220 4MB.
> >
> Could you please tell me, where to get the SDD driver. I read a lot about
> this driver and it seems to be interesting. But I have no idea from I can
> download this driver.
> 

You can download it from their web site.

URL http://www.scitechsoft.com

Select the Warp driver try it now choice. This is the beta driver

Lorne Sunley

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From: piquant00@uswestmail.net                          30-Aug-99 14:53:28
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Re: problem installing SDD beta 6 with Matrox Mystique 220 4MB

From: piquant00@uswestmail.net (Annie K.)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:34:55, "Peter Engels" <p.engels@gmx.de> wrote:

:Could you please tell me, where to get the SDD driver.

 ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.0-b6.zip

-- 
Anthropomorphic Hamburger

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From: gkrupp@ibm.net                                    30-Aug-99 17:47:19
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Re: How do I install Matrox's !@#$% BIOS update???

From: gkrupp@ibm.net (Georg Krupp)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:46:59, Dennis Riepon 
<driepon@nospam.POBoxes.com> wrote:

> G'Day,
> 
> First, use something like 'UNZIP' to extract everything from the
> BIOS_104.EXE file.
> Once the files have been successfully unzipped, from a dos window run
> the UBIOSDOS.EXE which should be in the bios_104 directory.
> 
> regards
> Dennis Riepon
> 
> 
> Christopher B. Wright wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, here's the problem:
> > 
> > I'm trying to upgrade my Matrox G400 Max card to the latest Bios (1.04, I
> > believe). The thing is, I can't seem to expand the .exe file that I've
> > downloaded from Matrox's official site. I keep getting a "cannot run exe
in a
> > DOS session" message, as well as a win-os2 session opening (It will only
go
> > away when I kill the session in Process Commander).
> > 
> > I've downloaded this stupid thing about five or six times, and I get the
same
> > the result. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? Do I need a windows
OS
> > installed just to upgrade the BIOS on this stupid card?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help...
> > 
> > Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
> > "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
> >      - Edward Young

Hy.
the .exe-file is (I think only!) expanding in Windows 95 and W98, then
trying to update you'll get the message:
"The BIOS on the card is newer...." or somewhat like this.
So it is not worth it!

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From: bboot@hercii.mar.lmco.com                         31-Aug-99 02:17:08
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:28
Subj: Re: Warning for people upgrading to G400 from other Matrox cards

From: Brad Boot <bboot@hercii.mar.lmco.com>

Chris:

I, too, learned that the hard way. I also upgraded from the Millenium II to
the
G400 with similar problems. The real problem was upgrading from the G400 to
the
G400 MAX. I bought the G400 at a local computer show and cancelled the G400
Max
from Matrox. Guess what showed up on the door step last week. Another thing
for
G400/G400 Max users is to remember to open up the pipeline in their computer
bios
to 256 Mb from the default of, I beleive, 64Mb.

Brad Boot

"Christopher B. Wright" wrote:

> This is just based on my experience, and I can't guarantee that the
solutions
> I provide are legit, but you might find this helpful.
>
> I was upgrading from a Matrox Millenium II to a G400 Max. I finally managed
> to update to the latest bios and I'd installed the latest drivers, but when
I
> booted up, as soon as the computer tried to load the WPS my monitor lost all
> video signals from the card! For some reason, my video card would not
> transmit information to my monitor at all, the monitor kept flashing "loss
of
> sync" messages on its screen.
>
> The problem _may_ have been that when I had the Millenium II, Dialog
Enhancer
> copied the pmgax64.dll file (to modify the icon sizes) and kept it stored in
> the c:/os2/deprog/dll directory. Because that's situated ahead of the
> c:/os2/dll directory in that particular config.sys line, it was loaded
first.
>
> Deleting all traces of the old pmgax64.dll file seemed to fix the problem.
>
> So if you've used older Matrox cards, check tos ee if any old versions of
the
> pmgax64.dll are hanging around in other directories. If there are, delete
> them. That may solve a few of your problems.
>
> Everything seems to be working ok now on my machine...
>
> Chris Wright (wrightc@ubersoft.net)
> http://ubersoft.net
> +----
> "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"

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From: bunzel@fh-muenchen.de                             30-Aug-99 20:42:15
  To: drowelf@nospamvnet.net                            30-Aug-99 16:56:28
Subj: Re: WinOS2 Video Problem at 1024x768x65K

To: "Eric A. Erickson" <drowelf@nospamvnet.net>
From: Martin Bunzel FH <bunzel@fh-muenchen.de>

...don't know if it works for all adapters and for Win-OS/2
window-settings. In full screen mode, it should be possible to run a
different display setting.

Martin

Eric A. Erickson schrieb:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:59:25 +0200, Martin Bunzel FH wrote:
> 
> >You can change the settings in your system.ini for win-OS/2 for the
> >display
> >
> >fdisplay.drv
> >and sdisplay.drv
> >
> >to the old 1024x768x16M colors.
> >
> >One of the is the one form full screen mode. He'll have to work as he
> >did in the old 1024x768x16M colors sessions. You can also rechange the
> >colors for all to 16M and look at the settings in the system.ini (it's
> >in the [Winos/2-install drive]\os2\winos2 directory.)
> >
> >Martin
> 
> That did not work too well. Setting the colors to 65K and the
> WinOS2 Settings to 16M results in corrupted WinOs2 Display.
> 
> Elvish Software Foundry, Inc.                   - Internet: 
drowelf@vnet.net
> IBM Certified OS/2 Warp Engineer        - IBMLink:   HONE81(ESFISA1)
> IBM Certified OS2/ Warp Developer & Associate Visual Age C++ Developer
> 'Already where I want to be Today       - Voice/Fax: (281)-398-2625 <-Newe'

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From: riethdorf@gmx.de                                  30-Aug-99 21:56:10
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 19:58:00
Subj: Re: Savage4

From: Michael <riethdorf@gmx.de>

...
But there is a "normal driver" look at:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/s3savage_v61010.zip

Greetings/2

Michael

Ron Capelli schrieb:
> 
> alex wrote:
> >
> > Does Latest GRADD 80 works with Savage4??
> 
> No...
> 
> ...Ron Capelli  (Austin)

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From: Kanderson@kanderson.net                           30-Aug-99 15:00:29
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 21:34:15
Subj: Resolution

From: Ken Anderson <Kanderson@kanderson.net>

Is there any software for OS/2 that will let me change the resolution
without rebooting?

Thanks

Ken

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From: bradboot@ibm.net                                  30-Aug-99 22:20:11
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 05:26:03
Subj: Re: Warning for people upgrading to G400 from other Matrox cards

From: Brad Boot <bradboot@ibm.net>

Update on G400 Max and OS/2:

As previously mentioned by Chris, flush all remnants of pmgax64.dll, restart
OS/2,
reset to VGA (for newbies, ALT-F2 at startup and then F3). Download the Matrox 
beta
drivers from Hobbes or the OS/2 Super Site, version 2.31, and install. They've 
been
running for approximately 2 hours now with alot of threads, open windows, etc.
Everything is working excellent to this point. This is the only driver that I
know of
that will work with the G400 Max. When installed, the driver version is
2.31.095 and
even the RAMDAC is correctly identified. Hope this helps.

Brad Boot

Brad Boot wrote:

> Chris:
>
> I, too, learned that the hard way. I also upgraded from the Millenium II to
the
> G400 with similar problems. The real problem was upgrading from the G400 to
the
> G400 MAX. I bought the G400 at a local computer show and cancelled the G400
Max
> from Matrox. Guess what showed up on the door step last week. Another thing
for
> G400/G400 Max users is to remember to open up the pipeline in their computer 
bios
> to 256 Mb from the default of, I beleive, 64Mb.
>
> Brad Boot
>
> "Christopher B. Wright" wrote:
>
> > This is just based on my experience, and I can't guarantee that the
solutions
> > I provide are legit, but you might find this helpful.
> >
> > I was upgrading from a Matrox Millenium II to a G400 Max. I finally
managed
> > to update to the latest bios and I'd installed the latest drivers, but
when I
> > booted up, as soon as the computer tried to load the WPS my monitor lost
all
> > video signals from the card! For some reason, my video card would not
> > transmit information to my monitor at all, the monitor kept flashing "loss 
of
> > sync" messages on its screen.
> >
> > The problem _may_ have been that when I had the Millenium II, Dialog
Enhancer
> > copied the pmgax64.dll file (to modify the icon sizes) and kept it stored
in
> > the c:/os2/deprog/dll directory. Because that's situated ahead of the
> > c:/os2/dll directory in that particular config.sys line, it was loaded
first.
> >
> > Deleting all traces of the old pmgax64.dll file seemed to fix the problem.
> >
> > So if you've used older Matrox cards, check tos ee if any old versions of
the
> > pmgax64.dll are hanging around in other directories. If there are, delete
> > them. That may solve a few of your problems.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working ok now on my machine...
> >
> > Chris Wright (wrightc@ubersoft.net)
> > http://ubersoft.net
> > +----
> > "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"

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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 30-Aug-99 23:53:14
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 11:04:19
Subj: Re: Resolution

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.video, Ken Anderson <Kanderson@kanderson.net>
spake unto us, saying:

>Is there any software for OS/2 that will let me change the resolution
>without rebooting?

The Matrox Millenium drivers allow you to perform a two-stage magnify
without rebooting, but that's not quite the same thing.

Otherwise, I suspect not.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                    Oh, I get it, you were kidding.

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From: you@hope.not                                      31-Aug-99 13:07:24
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 11:04:20
Subj: Re: Screen Driver for OS/2 Warp 3 Connect - Please help.

From: "Who Where" <you@hope.not>

Thanks, but where do I get fixpack > 35 ?  Could you e-mail it to me? Or is
it (I should think so...) to large?  And... do you have to install all the
prior fixpacks in order to install the rest?

Hardy Griech wrote in message ...
>If everything else fails, try to install fixpack > 35 and install the
>GENGRADD drivers.



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From: rdohrenburg@hotmail.com                           31-Aug-99 08:36:25
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 14:56:01
Subj: Re: Matrox G400 problems

From: Robert Dohrenburg <rdohrenburg@hotmail.com>

uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!
> 
> I bought a Matrox G400, but I have some problems with this card!
> 
> When starting the computer, the BIOS (Award) reports "Warning: SPD not found
> in DIMM(s) 1". Does anybody know what this means? Is it a hardware
defect????


The bios use SPD to get the memory timing information probably you have
this option enabled with a non SPD SDRAM module, try disabling it.


Robert,

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From: NO_SPAM_TO_garyktse@hknet.com                     31-Aug-99 22:21:28
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 14:56:02
Subj: Re: Newer Matrox Drivers

From: Gary Tse Kwong Chi <NO_SPAM_TO_garyktse@hknet.com>

Bob Grimes wrote:
> 
> I am running a Mystique 220, 4megs with the original drivers that came
> on the CD, 2.13.  They give me excellent resolutions and color.  What I
> am wondering, why do people constantly keep installing newer drivers?
> Do these new drivers add features to the card?  I have no problems with
> the card, and am getting up to 1280x1024 at 16million, if I want it.  Is
> it just the need to "upgrade"?

It MAY BE true for OS/2, an already stable OS. But some guys has still
experienced malfunctions on some particular versions of display drivers.
Win** users, on the other hand, are frequently exposed with endless
troubles.
For example, I'd my Delphi 4.0 making frequent Big Blue Screens under
Win95,
using my Matrox PowerDesk driver. (Other users didn't report similar
problem)

Gary

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~

Haydn is the father of symphonies.
Mozart is the son of symphonies.
Beethoven is the god of symphonies.
And Bach is the Creator of all!

~~~ To reply, please remove the anti-spam statement before my e-mail
address. ~~~

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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 31-Aug-99 15:36:20
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 14:56:02
Subj: Re: Newer Matrox Drivers

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.video, Bob Grimes <sctvguy@netcenter.net>
spake unto us, saying:

>I am running a Mystique 220, 4megs with the original drivers that came
>on the CD, 2.13.  They give me excellent resolutions and color.  What I
>am wondering, why do people constantly keep installing newer drivers?

I don't.  :-)  I'm still using the 2.04.040 drivers with my Millenium.

Some folks see problems.  Others don't.  There are lots of variables.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                  The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then

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From: uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de                          31-Aug-99 19:37:10
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 20:08:13
Subj: Re: Matrox G400 problems

From: uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Hi Robert! Thanks for you answer!

>> I bought a Matrox G400, but I have some problems with this card!
>> 
>> When starting the computer, the BIOS (Award) reports "Warning: SPD not
found
>> in DIMM(s) 1". Does anybody know what this means? Is it a hardware
defect????
>
>
>The bios use SPD to get the memory timing information probably you have
>this option enabled with a non SPD SDRAM module, try disabling it.

With my old Cirrus Logic card, I didn't get this message... 
So I'm not sure if this has something to do with the main memory.
Could it be a defect of the video memory?

A strange thing happened today: Windows 95 worked all right yesterday, but
when I
booted the system this morning, it also has a complete crash!!! :-(

Btw: The normal Windows or OS/2 Standard VGA driver work "all right"...

Bye!

Andi


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From: rgriech@swol.de                                   31-Aug-99 21:38:26
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 20:08:13
Subj: Re: Screen Driver for OS/2 Warp 3 Connect - Please help.

From: rgriech@swol.de (Hardy Griech)

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:07:48 +0200, "Who Where" <you@hope.not> wrote:
> Thanks, but where do I get fixpack > 35 ?  Could you e-mail it to me? Or is
> it (I should think so...) to large?  And... do you have to install all the
> prior fixpacks in order to install the rest?
:

Little bit too large, yes...

The ftp address you should check is

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v3.0warp

GENGRADD can be obtained at the device driver repository

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm

Hardy

-- 
VSoup Homepage:                       http://home.pages.de/~vsoup/

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From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca                        01-Sep-99 00:18:17
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 10:43:23
Subj: Re: Gradd 0.80 on Matrox Millenium

From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (Alex Taylor)

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:24:19, Ron Capelli <RonCapelli@prodigy.net> wrote:

> > My (computers) hardware:  AMD K6-2-350MHz (wasn't there a problem under
> > Win95 due to different timing of the K6 compared to Intel??), 128MByte
> > RAM, G200-AGP 8MByte, EIDE HDD - in other words: nothing special.
>        ~~~~~~~~
> 
> MGAGRADD in GRADDBB build 0.080 does not support the G100/G200/G400
> Matrox chipsets.  

WHAT??!  That's kind of useless, isn't it? seeing as how those are
all the Matrox cards of the past 2 years or so... 

Gee, that might explain why I couldn't get the MGAGRADD to work on my
(G200) system.  You'd think they'd make this potentially relevant piece
of information available (easily visible, anyway - I certainly never
came across it in my scan of the instructions).

<sigh> Anyway, what do we (G100/200/400 users) use for GRADD drivers?
GENGRADD?  A beta version?  Or are we SOL?

-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Alex Taylor                  BA - CIS - University of Guelph
 alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: Skree@stubble.jumpers                             01-Sep-99 00:43:24
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:19
Subj: Re: Look at this!!!!!

From: Skree@stubble.jumpers

In <37CC5F55.689BFBC@ckcomputers.com>, on 08/31/99 
   at 07:03 PM, alex <alex@ckcomputers.com> said:

Q}http://www.3dfx.com/view.asp?IOID=283

Yeah -  I wonder what 3dfx means by legacy support for os/2??


-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Kenn Sunley
MR/2 ICE ver 1.60 reg'd
Date: 1999.09.01
Time: 00:43:49 - -0600

Warp 4
233Mhz PII
ATI Xpert@work
Gradd Rocks - thank you IBM
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From: 66Olds@email.msn.com                              01-Sep-99 19:52:19
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 06:35:00
Subj: Video Display & GRADD

From: "DJR" <66Olds@email.msn.com>

Could anyone out there please give me the rundown on what it takes to
install the GRADD 0.080 drivers unto an OS\2 Warp 4.0 system (fixpak 10).
The documentation say's that I will have to run Loaddskf to make a diskette
image of this driver but for the life of me I'm unable to even remotely get
it to work. My system has a S3 Virge display adapter and a 19" monitor and
is only displaying 640x480 resolution in warp. Please let me know the steps
required to get a better resolution on this system. Thanks

--



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From: rdohrenburg@hotmail.com                           01-Sep-99 23:19:16
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 06:35:00
Subj: Re: Matrox G400 problems

From: Robert Dohrenburg <rdohrenburg@hotmail.com>

uh45@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> 
> Hi Robert! Thanks for you answer!
> 
> >> I bought a Matrox G400, but I have some problems with this card!
> >>
> >> When starting the computer, the BIOS (Award) reports "Warning: SPD not
found
> >> in DIMM(s) 1". Does anybody know what this means? Is it a hardware
defect????
> >
> >
> >The bios use SPD to get the memory timing information probably you have
> >this option enabled with a non SPD SDRAM module, try disabling it.
> 
> With my old Cirrus Logic card, I didn't get this message...
> So I'm not sure if this has something to do with the main memory.
> Could it be a defect of the video memory?
>

Probably you have a conflict or overlapping memory with the G400 and
that is why you did not get the error with the cirrus card.

I would try setting the "Graphics aperture size" in the bios to match
the memory amount in the G400 ( 32Mb If I remeber correctly )

I wouldn't worry about any defective hardware.

Robert,

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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             02-Sep-99 20:50:22
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:28
Subj: Re: Video Display & GRADD

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:52:39, "DJR" <66Olds@email.msn.com> wrote:

> Could anyone out there please give me the rundown on what it takes to
> install the GRADD 0.080 drivers unto an OS\2 Warp 4.0 system (fixpak 10).
> The documentation say's that I will have to run Loaddskf to make a diskette
> image of this driver but for the life of me I'm unable to even remotely get
> it to work. My system has a S3 Virge display adapter and a 19" monitor and
> is only displaying 640x480 resolution in warp. Please let me know the steps
> required to get a better resolution on this system. Thanks
 
Chuckle.  This is a error in the file.  The loaddskf causes the disk to
have a label like GRADD .8 and it needs to be relabled GRADD 1.

Then it will work.


                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: phillipd@antares.cloudnet.com                     02-Sep-99 23:11:25
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:28
Subj: Re: Look at this!!!!!

From: Phillip Davenport <phillipd@antares.cloudnet.com>

Skree@stubble.jumpers wrote:
> In <37CC5F55.689BFBC@ckcomputers.com>, on 08/31/99 
>    at 07:03 PM, alex <alex@ckcomputers.com> said:

> Q}http://www.3dfx.com/view.asp?IOID=283

> Yeah -  I wonder what 3dfx means by legacy support for os/2??

2D dumb-buffer, maybe GRADD. No acceleration, no optimization, no 3D..

  p

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From: jlmaqui_killme_@_borrame_cgac.es                  03-Sep-99 01:57:25
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:28
Subj: Re: Nvidia TNT driver

From: jlmaqui_killme_@_borrame_cgac.es

In <37c21afd.285987938@news.microserve.net>, on 08/24/99 
   at 04:13 AM, jyouells@lifestream.microserve.com (John Youells) said:

Hi!

>  I also have a machine running a mix of Gradd 0.80 and NvidiaOS/2 gradd
>drivers and it works OK on a FIC KA6100 and a Celeron366 at 413 with 128M,
>TNT1, .1 GB Danis506 OS/2 Warp 4 FP11 - waiting for Scitech to add
>acceleration for TNT and S3's Savage3D/4. 

 With the tnt "mixed driver"; can you put at any resolution/refresh rate ??

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From: 66Olds@email.msn.com                              02-Sep-99 23:59:00
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:27
Subj: S3 VIRGE PROBLEMS

From: "66Olds" <66Olds@email.msn.com>

Hi all
Has anyone out there had any problems installing the video drivers for a S3
Virge PCI card. My system seems to install the drivers all right, I have
different resolutions available, however on reboot the system hangs with
just a blinking cursor. Tried ALT+F2 and it will go through all the device
drivers ok, but then goes to a blinking cursor and will not respond to any
keyboard inputs. Any help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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From: falko.tesch@bigfoot.com                           03-Sep-99 07:12:29
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:28
Subj: 32x32 icons at 1024x768 with SDD/2?

From: Falko Tesch <falko.tesch@bigfoot.com>

Hi,

can anyone tell me if and how to change the SDD/2 to 96dpi (instead of 
1200dpi) in resolutions above 800x600?
I need this for OS/2 PM *and* WinOS/2. This big fonts and 40x40 icons 
look just like crab!

CU/2
Falko



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From: j.w.lieftink@hccnet.nl                            03-Sep-99 14:43:26
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:13
Subj: Iiyama 19" monitor

From: "Wim Lieftink" <j.w.lieftink@hccnet.nl>

How can I work with the correct dates with the 19" Iiyama monitor. My
graphic card is a Matrox Mystique 220. In the setup folder is are only the
17" and the 19" available

In this moment I work with the Vision Master 17, I will buy the 19".

Who can give me the solution

Thanks

Wim Lieftink

j.w.lieftink@hccnet.nl


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From: nbi@typhoon.xnet.com                              03-Sep-99 15:39:05
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 19:57:18
Subj: GRADD support for ATI Rage Pro

From: nbi@typhoon.xnet.com (Peter Stein)

I'm contemplating getting a laptop with ATI Rage Pro video.
It seems there are no native drivers so does anyone have
experience using a GRADD driver with Warp 4 on a laptop
from Dell, Quantex, Pro-Star, or something similar that
uses ATI Rage Pro? 

I've found a few posts using dejanews, but it wasn't 
anything conclusive. If you've had Warp 4 running 
successfully on such a laptop for some time please let
me know. I don't need blazing speed, but I do need fully
functional WINOS2 as I run many WIN3.1 apps. Thanks for
your help.

Peter Stein
nbi@xnet.com

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