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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:53:38 -0100 (GMT)
From:      Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter 
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.91.980408094218.4878B-100000@rs1>
In-Reply-To: <199804071632.KAA06235@mt.sri.com>

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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Nate Williams wrote:

> > > 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.
> > 
> > Strange! You have problems i seen only on the first version of the old 
> > matrox with XIG 1.2.
> 
> I see problems as well with both XIG/XFree86 on my MII, so he's not
> alone.
>

Are you sure you haven't bought an 'OEM' version of the card ?
 
> > I use 2 matrox cards (1600x1200 and 1800x1400 Multi-headed) with Xig4 and 
> > have no problems !!. (cards; MII, 1AGP, 1PCI, all two 8Mb).
>
> Have you tried using 'visuals' on XIG?  Also, I haven't tried the latest
> XFree86, but I used the SuSE server, which worked but had some (minor)
> screen corruption problem.
>

One card is 256 color, the other is overlayed (256+16M). All two use 
default visual (so peudo and peudo/true).


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