Hello Bas,
dinsdag 14 september 1999 15.17, Bas Heijermans wrote to Kris Steenhaut:

 KS>> Glad you are admitting it finally.

 KS>> Sadly, the originals, as you call it (2.20.8 I presume),
 KS>> don't cope anymore with biosses > 1.6.

 KS>> Sorry, but this whole Matrox businnes has turned into a
 KS>> mess.

 BH> Well it's not only Matrox that give problems, I suspect that Fixpak 10
 BH> and above have more to do with the problems.

It's a mere fact the Matrox drivers gave and give always the same problems,
from minut one they were on my 'puter, at FP 6 level. It's a mere fact too, an 
el cheapo S3 Virge on almostthe same 'puter (same mobo, SCSI) does show none
of the Matrox problems. Even more: the S3 has the stability I thougt the
Matrox would have. True, the S3 needs drivers 1.03.20 or better 1.03.25.


 BH>  But I still find the
 BH> Matrox cards the best that are arround for OS/2, you just have to use
 BH> the right driver and the one that came on the CDrom doens't seem to
 BH> give me any problems whatsoever.

As I already told, the drivers on the CD-rom, even these don't work. The WPS
gets hung at boot. Probably, as you already sayd, this is due to the FP-level, 
and probably coz the bios 2.6 doesn't cope anymore with these old drivers.

Bottom line: Ati Mach64 and S3 do work excellent at FP9. And the manufacturers 
took care to make appropriate drivers [ATI - 3.1; S3 - 1.03.25).
Matrox on the other hand is sucking all the way since FP6, not only on my
system, but on many others, as it has turned out now. Worst af all, Matrox is
now shipping his AGP-400 with non working drivers. Purchasers have to grab
beta 2.3x drivers somewhere else.

And as S3-Virge - Savage, Riva Tnt, nVidia, and Ati have excellent drivers
now, the choice for a new one looks rather obvious to me.



    Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2

      Kris

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