Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 20:49:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers list) Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <199804070349.UAA00237@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Apr 1998 22:55:32 %2B0200." <199804052055.WAA29452@yedi.iaf.nl>
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> I've been asked for a summary, so here it is: > > - My question was specific to whether a Matrox Millenium II would be a good > choice for (stock) Xfree and whether it would run OK on a 75Mc PCI bus. > > The general opinion seems to be that a Matrox Millenium II is indeed a very > good card, and should run without problems on a 75Mc bus. Even 83Mc buses > seem to work OK. Whether stock Xfree is OK seems to be under debate. Both > claims that stock Xfree is OK and claims that you need Xaccel are present. > > A trip to www.xfree86.org seems to indicate that the Xfree86 distribution > now supports the Millenium II. You want to take a close look on the RAMDAC > speed in case you want the highest resolutions and refresh rates (and you > probably do ;-) > > So, people sound pleased and I'll probably be getting in the near term. > > Wilko > > Snippets of received comments: > .... > Not unless you are willing to buy Xaccel. XFree86 doesn't support it > very well at all. Xaccel 4.01 is pretty good, modulo some > font-handling bugs. > .... This is my comment, I'll make it again. I have an MII, I have the latest XFree86, and Xaccel 4.01. Xaccel is sufficiently buggy that I have to use XFree occasionally (colour and font handling). I would not want to be using it on a regular basis (it reminds me of the old days with the S3 server in its infancy), however, as the XFree server has a number of extremely annoying and distracting cosmetic problems. If you can live with swarming ants, random pixel garbage and occasional snow, by all means go for it. Otherwise, hang back a few months and let the nice XFree MII hackers finish the job. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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