Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:51:52 -0500 From: "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pci video card suggestions? Message-ID: <19990109135152.C13463@marso.com> In-Reply-To: <36976390.2514F91F@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 02:11:28PM %2B0000 References: <19990109083651.A13622@marso.com> <36976390.2514F91F@uk.radan.com>
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My concern with your suggestion is that the XFree86 docs make it clear
that ATI support is *unaccelerated* for color depth greater than 256.
I've attached the relevent paragraphs from README.ati.
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 02:11:28PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> "Larry S. Marso" wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for a trouble-free PCI video card for about $100.
> I would recommend ATI cards. I've had 2, a Graphics Xpression and
> currently an Xpert@Work. The All-in-Wonder seems to be a very good card
> and IIRC you can make it's TV stuff work under FreeBSD :-).
>
> ATI cards are the only ones I've had that have worked at the max
> resolution of my monitor (1024x768x70Hz) at their max colour depth
> straight out of the box under all OS's (Win{3.x,95}, NT{3.51,4},
> FreeBSD, & OS/2).
3. Current implementation for ATI adapters
The driver currently supports the SuperVGA capabilities of all ATI adapters
except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters that do not provide the
required functionality. This support works for monochrome, 16-colour
and 256-colour video modes, if one of the following ATI graphics controller
chips is present:
VGAWonder series: 18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6
Mach32 series: 68800-3, 68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX
Mach64 series: 88800GX-C, 88800GX-D, 88800GX-E, 88800GX-F, 88800CX,
264CT, 264ET, 264VT, 264GT (3D Rage), 264VT-B, 264VT3,
264VT4, 264GT-B (3D Rage II), 264GTIIc (3D Rage IIc),
264GT3 (3D Rage Pro), 264LT (3D Rage LT), 264LTPro
(3D Rage LT Pro)
The driver also supports 32K, 64K and 16M-colour modes on the 264xT
series of adapters using the accelerator CRTC (but not the VGA CRTC).
This support is as yet unaccelerated.
Best regards
--
Larry S. Marso
larry@marso.com
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