Kris Steenhaut wrote in a message to Leonard Erickson:

 KS> Hello Leonard,
 KS> donderdag 07 oktober 1999 07.43, Leonard Erickson wrote to
 KS> All: 

 LE> I'm one of the folks who tried using SCROLLMS with a Matrox video
 LE> card.
 LE> I've replaced MOUSE.SYS, but the system still can't bring up the
 LE> desktop.

 KS> Got _exactly_ the same problem. On a 'puter with an S3
 KS> Virge, the scrollms program installed without a hictch, an
 KS> the Matrox 'puter the desktop wouldn't come up anymore.

 KS> My way out was to back out to plain VGA (alt+F1 --> F3) and
 KS> reinstall the Matroxdrivers again.
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

Your mouse is a serial mouse on Com4 (2E8, Irq 3), and as a result it
conflicts with the MGA chip that accesses that IO port. Move the serial port
to a different IO address. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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