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In a msg of , Bas Heijermans writes to Steve
McCrystal:
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Bas,

 SM>> What he should be looking for is "Assign IRQ for VGA", which
 SM>> is what he wants to disable, whether he knows it or not.
 SM>> Even if he can't, it's unlikely to cause tje problems he's
 SM>> reported, but at least there'd be one less thing that he
 SM>> doesn't understand.

 BH> I know, it's on some board, dut it doesn't help him do:-)

Nothing seems to, altho many have tried!

 BH> The nice part of it all is that he believes Dani, the person who
 BH> has screwed many systems with her buggy driver

Two things here... first, he completely misunderstood Dani's docs, and based a 
number of false assumptions on that misunderstanding. Then he grabbed another
of Dani's comments (a very true comment, BTW) in another forum, and
misconstrued that to mean that Matrox cards won't 'share IRQs' It's quite
obvious that he doesn't understand either the original comments Dani made or
his interpretation of them. Those two, OTOH, are only two among a VERY large
number of things Kris has commented on, ad nauseum, that he doesn't
understand!

Second, calling Dani's drivers buggy is more than a bit unfair. I have used
them in the past, even the early releases, without significant problems.
Problems others have had have been addressed... and fixed.  I know of nobody
who has had serious problems that can (correctly) be traced directly to Dani's 
drivers.

OTOH, I've asked before, and I'll ask again...

Could we have a show of hands of those people who actually understand what
"ALPHA" and "BETA" mean with respect to software development?

 BH> maybe the have created problems in those drivers because of the G400
 BH> support, who knows.

Some problems indeed happened because of the BETA support for the G400,
especially in the Beta release that Matrox specifically requested NOT be
distributed by anyone but Matrox. Not surprisingly, the problems happened to
people who did not have a G400, and thus should not have been using the Beya
in the first place!  It hit the Net, via Hobbes, as I recall, and the
complaints started.  The guy who posted it to Hobbes sure did the OS/2
community a real service, didn't he?

Again, this sort of thing is why I'm a big supporter of closed betas, but they 
only work if all the players understand the rules. Unfortunately, if the Beta
gets out, that is unlikely.

-[Steve]-

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