From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 07:11:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA17399 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 07:11:13 -0800 Received: from critter.clark.net (h-bookman.dc.infi.net [204.117.149.144]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA17391 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 07:10:58 -0800 Received: (from rjs@localhost) by critter.clark.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA01011; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 10:11:22 GMT Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 10:03:30 +0000 From: Ron Steele Subject: Re: the right video interface for X? To: Ron Minnich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Feb 1995, Ron Minnich wrote: > well i think i've gotten this wrong twice now. First i got matrox, which > of course won't work. So, says i, i'll get an ati mach32, so x will work > fine. > > The machine we just got has an ati mach64 (?) and superprobe is not sure > what it is. > > Anyway, if you have: > 1) a good fast video card, that > 2) xfree has a server for > > i'd like to hear from you. PCI is the only bus i've got (well, ISA, but > that doesn't count). > > if there's some simple hint for the mach64 please let me know. > > > ron > > Ron Minnich |We can think of C++ as the Full Employment Act > rminnich@earth.sarnoff.com |for Programmers. After all, with each compiler > (609)-734-3120 |version change, you have to rewrite all your code. > > I have a #9GXE64Pro. I use the S3 XFree86 server. There is a bug where you (occationally) get lines through the screen when it pans the virtual display, but they go away when you pan in the opposite direction. All in all it works well. Not sure how fast it is compared to other boards, but sliding xterms etc. around is completely painless. I never see editors redraw - (including xemacs). If you try this be sure to get the server that is patched to use this board, the older S3 servers don't recognize the chip it uses.