JdBP>> I suppose that it doesn't help you to know that my new Matrox
 JdBP>> Millenium II has worked fine so far (I haven't installed the
 JdBP>> drivers yet, so I'm only using it in VGA mode at the moment.).
 GF> I've got my Matrox Millenium II set at 1280x1024x16.7M and it works
 GF> great!  Even at this setting it blows away my old Diamond Stealth 64
 GF> 2200XL I had set at 1024x768x65k.  Absolutely no comparison in speed.
I've installed the drivers since writing that message, and everything is 
working fine here too.  The only downside is that I have discovered that my 
monitor (which is a VAR rebadged one, so I have no idea what monitor it 
actually is) cannot handle the sync rates for anything over 640*480, so I 
really *do* have to buy a new monitor.  Oh well, at least I can have 640*480 
in 16 million colours in the meantime.  (-:
The speed is impressive, though.  When running the Matrox Millenium using the 
standard VGA drivers there was considerable improvement over my old Paradise 
VGA card.  Switching between text to graphics mode was noticably faster, for 
instance.  The big speed increase came with using the Matrox display drivers, 
however.  Scrolling of text in a Take Command for OS/2 window when doing DIR 
/S C:\ was pretty much the same as it had been on my old VGA card using the 
standard VGA drivers (I could still just about read the directories as they 
scrolled by, and the hard disc would only).  I installed the Matrox display 
drivers and the text is now a blur.  It is now obvious that the main thing 
slowing down DIR /S C:\ is the hard disc (I'm using my old one, which is a 
Seagate ST1480 using PIO mode 0.).
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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