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Document: PCI Video Cards for OS/2 list
Maintainer: Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca
Last Revision Date: 11/5/95, 11/26/95, 12/3/95, 5/18/96, 5/26/96,
6/2/96
Archived at: ftp.netcom.com, in directory /pub/ab/abe/
CompuServe (GO BENCHMARK)
Web pages: http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2/workbench/work.htm
http://www.os2forum.or.at/english/info/os2hardwareinfo/
(note that the first URL may not have up-to-date
versions of the lists)
This document is intended for use by individuals and corporations in a
non-commercial manner. It may be distributed freely within those
limitations. Commercial use of this document in any manner requires
prior written permission of the author.
This is the PCI video card for OS/2 list. Remember that I depend very
heavily on your input, so feel free to correct any continuing
misconceptions I might have, or to insist that I should recommend a card
I don't, or to add a new card/piece of information to what's here
already. Your contributions and/or corrections are always welcome and
certainly appreciated. I've added the PCI vendor IDs of the card
manufacturer to the list, in most cases in brackets after the relevant
card entry. The first entry is HEX, and the second one is decimal.
Dates in brackets indicate the last revision date for the related entry.
General comments: (8/27/95)
For any video card (and any operating system, really) it's potentially
to your advantage to pick a card which is either supported directly or
is backwards compatible with some standard supported directly by the
operating system vendor. That way, if a new release of the operating
system in question breaks the drivers you have, you'll either be
guaranteed new drivers with the operating system, or at least have a
"fall-back" point, where you'll have higher resolution than VGA, though
likely not with all the accelerated features of the card.
For OS/2 2.1/2.11, you'll want standards supported by IBM. There are no
PCI XGA cards (something for which I would give my eye teeth), so your
best bet is a PCI S3 801/805/928-based card which works with the IBM
drivers. These seem to be relatively few in number in North America
(though fairly common in Europe), so if you can't find one listed here,
a safe bet is the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro listed below, especially since
it is used (with the latest ATI drivers) in several OS/2-certified
systems. It has the added advantage of being 8514 compatible, which
means that you'll have higher-than-VGA-resolution drivers for it, even
if they don't support all available modes of the card, if a new release
of OS/2 breaks ATI's drivers. Also a good bet would be any video card
which uses the ET4000-W32[i,p] chip, since the ET4000 (not -W32[i,p])
chip is supported by OS/2 out of the box, and the new W32[i,p] chips are
supposed to be backwards compatible with it.
For OS/2 Warp, driver support seems to be much better. Support (either
by IBM or coerced by IBM) for almost all major video chipset types is
built in, so when picking your card a good criterion to search by is
driver maturity, followed next by speed. Fast cards are all well and
good, after all, but mediocre drivers can take away all the advantages
they potentially offer. I'll try (as best I can) to offer up opinions
where that's concerned. Please feel free to contribute.
One last note: If a particular video chip is reported to work well when
used in a particular video card, this does not necessarily mean that it
will work well in systems where the video has been integrated onto the
motherboard. For that matter, the presence of a given video chip on a
certain video card does not automatically guarantee that that certain
video card will work either, even if other implementations using that
chip work. This is because every implementation of the video chip may
use slightly different support chips (DAC, etc.), and these slightly
different chips may (or may not) cause driver problems when existing
drivers were not written with that implementation in mind. To that end
and unless specifically noted otherwise, all reports below are only for
the specific video card indicated.
NEW THIS WEEK
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I've updated the information on the combination audio/video card by
Asus, and added their contact information to the "Useful Numbers"
section below.
Useful Numbers: (6/2/96)
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#9: (800) 438-6463 (voice)
ftp.nine.com (FTP site)
www.nine.com (WWW site)
Asus: (408) 956-9077 (tech. support)
ftp.asus.com.tw (ftp site)
www.asus.com.tw (WWW site)
gopher.asus.com.tw (gopher site)
tsd@asus.com.tw (tech. support E-Mail)
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (internet newsgroup)
ATI: (905) 882-2600 (sales)
(905) 882-2620 (sales -- FAX)
(905) 882-2626 (tech. support)
(905) 882-0546 (tech. support -- FAX)
(905) 764-9404 (BBS -- N,8,1)
ftp.atitech.ca (FTP site)
www.atitech.ca (WWW site)
76004.3656@compuserve.com (General Inquiries)
74740.667@compuserve.com (Tech. Support)
GO ATITECH (CompuServe)
Avance: ftp.avance.com (FTP site)
www.avance.com (WWW site)
Compaq: ftp.compaq.com (FTP site)
www.compaq.com (WWW site)
Dell: ftp.dell.com (FTP site for S3/Trio64 drivers)
Diamond: (408) 736-2000 (voice)
(408) 730-5750 (FAX)
(408) 524-9301 (BBS -- N,8,1)
ftp.diamondmm.com (FTP site)
www.diamondmm.com (WWW site)
75300,3673 (CompuServe)
DIAMOND.TECH (Genie)
ELSA (Germany): 0-241-9177-0 (Voice)
0-241-9177-600 (FAX)
0-241-9177-4 (FAXBack)
0-241-9177-981 (BBS)
0-241-9177-7800 (ISDN port)
ELSA (U.S.): (800) 272-3572 (Voice)
(408) 565-9669 (Voice)
(408) 565-9650 (FAX)
(408) 565-9630 (BBS)
GO ELSA (Compuserve)
Hercules: (800) 532-0600 (voice)
(510) 623-6050 (voice)
(510) 623-1112 (FAX)
(510) 623-7449 (BBS - US)
+49-8142-40898 (BBS - Germany)
ftp.hercules.com (FTP site)
www.hercules.com (WWW site)
Matrox: (800) 361-1408 (voice)
(514) 969-6320 (voice)
(514) 969-6363 (FAX)
(514) 685-0174 (FAXBack)
www.matrox.com (WWW site)
ftp.matrox.com (FTP site)
Miro: www.miro.com (WWW site)
S3: s3.com (FTP site)
SPEA (Germany): voice: +49 8151 266 240
fax: +49 8151 266 150
BBS: +49 8151 266 241, 300 - 14400 - N,8,1
PART ONE: Cards Supported Out-of-the-box by Warp
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a) 64-bit Cards
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Manufacturer Model Comments
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#9 GXE64* The GXE64 is based on the
S3/864 chipset and uses up to 2 MB
of DRAM. It uses the AT&T 20C498-13 RAMDAC. A GXE64 is being used in
combination with the Qlogic SCSI card and the Intel 60 MHz Pentium
motherboard without problems. Note that there may or may not be two
versions of this card; when you order yours make _certain_ that the card
you're getting uses the S3/864 chipset to get out-of-the-box support in
Warp.
(Number 9 Computer Company: 105D/4189) (12/3/