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In <Pine.SOL.3.93.960710105010.17157D-100000@venice.rp.CSIRO.AU>, Matt Hyne <mhyne@rp.csiro.au> writes:


>I am going to chuck my Diamond card and buy a decent OS/2 supported
>one.
>
>Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
>1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.
>
>I have a #9 card in my machine at home and it is absolutely EXCELLENT -
>but a bit too pricey when my work is paying. 

Two video cards that are well-supported under OS/2 are the Matrox
Millenium MGA, and the Elsa Winner 2000.

The MGA performs fantastically and has great OS/2 drivers, and retails
for around $350-400 Australian for the 2Mb version.  It's not as
expensive as a #9, but it's still pretty costly.  You can get info
about it at "http://www.matrox.com/mgaweb/brochure.htm".

I don't know a lot about the Elsa, but this card is the only one to
support IBM's ENDIVE in software or hardware.  Check out
"http://www.elsa.com", "http://www.elsa.com/c/applicat/applic_e.htm"
and "http://www.elsa.com/c/applicat/os2_e.htm" for info on this one.

Personally, I'm using a Speed64V+ w/2Mb, which is an implementation of
the S3 Trio 64V+ chipset.  The latest drivers (2/7/96) seem to work
well, although they don't support 24bit colour at 800x600 (my preferred
resolution), and they seem to choke on DIVE from time to time.  It's
not perfect, but I got it at a good price so I'm pretty happy. :)

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Matt Hyne <mhyne@rp.csiro.au> wrote:


>I am going to chuck my Diamond card and buy a decent OS/2 supported one.

>Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
>1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.

>I have a #9 card in my machine at home and it is absolutely EXCELLENT -
>but a bit too pricey when my work is paying. 

>Matt

Try an ELSA card. They've probably the best drivers for almost any
platform (including Warp of course). I'm currently using an ELSA Winer
1000Trio and I'm very content with both performance and support. 
See ELSA's home page for more information:

http://www.elsa.de (there's a link to the US, probably
http://www.elsa.com but I'm not quite sure)

Ciao/2 Joerg

Matt Hyne wrote:

> Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
> 1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.
> 
 I currently have a Tseng labs et4000 w32p card and i'm very happy with it
 I'm running at 1024x768x256 @ 60Hz ( only because my monitor doesn't like over 60Hz
 at 1024x768 ! )  with a 1mb card....
 If you get the 2mb card you'll easily be able to do 1024x768 at 72Hz
 The card itself is only about $110 for a 1mb model, and about $170 for a 2mb model.
 The os/2 drivers are very good, and work very nicely on my system....
 
 Personally, I'd recommend it over many "name-brand" cards

 Or, if you can wait for a while, buy the new et6000...it leaves every other card for
 dead! It's faster than any matrox/diamond stealth/#9 card, and looking at tsengs web
 site, it looks like its going to be very competitively priced.

 Check it out at http://www.tseng.com

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In <31E591C6.41C67EA6@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au>, Gekko <joes@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>Matt Hyne wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
>> 1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.
>> 
> I currently have a Tseng labs et4000 w32p card and i'm very happy with it
[slurp]
BEWARE!
At my company we experienced problems with the ET4000 w32p interfering with the
COM4 (0x2E8 - 0x2EF) address range. This is similar to the ATI Graphics Pro Turbo
(which I have at home) but at least ATI tells you about it!. The symptoms were:
spurious NULLs and 0x80 characters coming out of COM4 when any video activity
occurred (mouse moving, opening-, closing-, sizing- windows etc). Changed the
graphics card to a Trident or Diamond and the problem went away. Just a word of
warning to let you know.
Cheers
Chris Hoffmann.

In <31E591C6.41C67EA6@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au>, Gekko <joes@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>Matt Hyne wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
>> 1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.
>> 
> I currently have a Tseng labs et4000 w32p card and i'm very happy with it
> I'm running at 1024x768x256 @ 60Hz ( only because my monitor doesn't like over 60Hz
> at 1024x768 ! )  with a 1mb card....
> If you get the 2mb card you'll easily be able to do 1024x768 at 72Hz
> The card itself is only about $110 for a 1mb model, and about $170 for a 2mb model.
> The os/2 drivers are very good, and work very nicely on my system....
> 
> Personally, I'd recommend it over many "name-brand" cards
>
> some  trimming done>
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>* Name: Joe Seisdedos			   *     Just because I don't care,   *
>* E-mail: joes@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au  *  doesn't mean I don't understand.*
>*					   *                  -Homer Simpson  *
>*******************************************************************************

 That is not my experience on this P-100.  If like me you are very sensitive to
 flicker and cannot abide 60 Hz, generic ET4000 W32 cards may not be for you.
 I had one initially, and expanded it in that hope to 2 Mb from 1 Mb - a total 
 waste as under OS/2 it would still only do 60 Hz and 256 colors at 1024x768. 
 Presumably it is a driver issue, but no less a problem for that.   

 I traded it all back for a 2 Mb #9 FX331 (could not raise the $$ for a 4 Mb Matrox
 Millenium) and this runs fine at 75 Hz and 16 bit color with the #9 2.57 S3 drivers
 from the #9 site - not supplied with the card though.  Only problem is no mouse
 pointer in FS Win-OS2, but seamless has done all I need so far.

 Tony  McGovern -- Physics Dept., Univ. of Newcastle NSW
  phpam@cc.newcastle.edu.au

In <4s47v6$ch3@kettle.magna.com.au>, engineer@scandic.com.au writes:
>In <31E591C6.41C67EA6@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au>, Gekko <joes@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>>Matt Hyne wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone tell me a decent card that they have found that can do
>>> 1024x768x256 @ 72Hz or better.
>>> 
>> I currently have a Tseng labs et4000 w32p card and i'm very happy with it
>[slurp]
>BEWARE!
>At my company we experienced problems with the ET4000 w32p interfering with the
>COM4 (0x2E8 - 0x2EF) address range. This is similar to the ATI Graphics Pro Turbo
>(which I have at home) but at least ATI tells you about it!. The symptoms were:
>spurious NULLs and 0x80 characters coming out of COM4 when any video activity
>occurred (mouse moving, opening-, closing-, sizing- windows etc). Changed the
>graphics card to a Trident or Diamond and the problem went away. Just a word of
>warning to let you know.
>Cheers
>Chris Hoffmann.

Hello, this is DTH. I have the same ET4000 (W32) card. Have you got
some drivers for OS/2 Warp for me to get it working. My refresh rate is
a very big problem. Thanks anyway. PS, a good PCI-card is NOT a trident.
That is a very slow videocard. Try a ATI MACH 64 and that will solve your
problems. I have, if you want them, some goo drivers for it. Mail me:

ctimmer@caiw.nl

In <4see4r$pie@newsserv.caiw.nl>, ctimmer@The Hague writes:
>Hello, this is DTH. I have the same ET4000 (W32) card. Have you got
>some drivers for OS/2 Warp for me to get it working. My refresh rate is
>a very big problem. Thanks anyway. PS, a good PCI-card is NOT a trident.
>That is a very slow videocard. Try a ATI MACH 64 and that will solve your
>problems. I have, if you want them, some goo drivers for it. Mail me:

have you read the post on using the SVGA.EXE with the ON MONITOR options
(ie. SVGA ON MONITOR) and then when it asks for a monitor type CUSTOM and it
will ask for the refresh rates you want to use for each video mode... worked
for me anyway... thanks to the guy who posted the info by the way.

regards,
Ingo.