Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:18:58 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, 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: <199804081418.IAA10881@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.980408094218.4878B-100000@rs1> References: <199804071632.KAA06235@mt.sri.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.980408094218.4878B-100000@rs1>
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> > > > 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'm sure it's an OEM version of the card, but it's definitely an MII, since I have all of the docs/such on it. > > 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). According to XIG, there *are* problems with both visuals and high=frequencies on the MII. You can't do 1600x1200@24bit, and visuals are known to be broken. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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