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From: jack.huffman{at}worldnet.att.net

> 
> The ATI manual says I need a display driver AND a motherboard driver.  It
> also says I should uninstall the driver (Scitech in my case) for my
> existing Matrox Millenium card and reinstall the driver after installing
> the AGP card.
> 
> Does the Scitech driver provide the equivalent of a graphics driver and a
> motherboard driver?  Do I need to uninstall and reinstall as ATI
> recommends?
> 
> TIA in advance for advice.
> 


> Jack
>  
> 
Hi Jack
  This is merely an educated guesstimation but AFAIK there are several
so-called motherboard drivers in modern chipsets which include
   AGP
   USB
   IDE/SATA
     and of course any onboard peripherals so common these days like
      onboard sound
      onboard modem
      onboard nic
      etc

  I don't know for certain if scitech drivers include various AGP chipset
support but I suspect it is fairly likely if your drivers are roughly as
new as the chipset.  As for the rest, IDE (and sometimes, such as with
Danis506, SATA) will work but sometimes at reduced performance, again
unless a modern driver such as Danis is used.  Sound is a crap shoot since
OS/2 has never been strong in it's support of any kind of multimedia, sound
included, so one would have to search out your particular chipset assuming
sound is onboard and desired.  Modem, unlikely but possible. Nic seems to
depend a lot on what variety.  Support for 10x is pretty good, 100 a bit
spotty, and gigabit unlikely.  However chipsets for nics perhaps more than
any other piece of hardware are more likely to have OS/2 drivers on the
manufacturer's website.

Good luck
Jimmy


 
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