From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 6 12:04:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA19011 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:04:00 -0800 Received: from napa.eng.uop.edu (napa.eng.uop.edu [138.9.210.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA19005 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:03:58 -0800 Received: by napa.eng.uop.edu (4.1/25-eef) id AA08705; Mon, 6 Feb 95 12:02:30 PST Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 12:02:30 PST From: hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu (Ken Hughes) Message-Id: <9502062002.AA08705@napa.eng.uop.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: XF86config configuration problem on a DEC VENTURIS 4100 In-Reply-To: Mail from 'owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Mon Feb 6 11:45:41 1995' dated Mon, 06 Feb 95 19:23:19 +0000 Cc: dave@odyssey.ucc.ie Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First, let me state that I in no way speak for the XFree86 Consortium; I'm on the beta test team, and all I do is test the software. Any specific questions should be directed at the development team, not me. > > > 1) when is 3.1.1 expected ? > > > > I'm on the XFree86 beta team so don't speak for the consortium, but I can > > say that the 3.1.1 release has been finalized and is in the process of > > being prepared for general release. Keep tuned to comp.windows.x.i386unix > > and probably the comp.os.386bsd.* groups for an official notice. > >ok, is it stable enough to use now ? I would really like something more >than 640x480 if possible I've been using a pre-release of the 3.1.1 S3 server on my Stealth 64 DRAM 2Mb with the Trio64 chip for a week now. It seems very stable, although I haven't put it through all the paces. The 3.1.1 release is being finalized and should be announced soon - don't ask me when, no one has told me. > > > > > 2) SVGA supports 1024x768, right ? > > > > To the best of my knowledge, you can only use 640x480x16 with the Trio64 and > > SVGA server right now. I haven't personally tried it but I believe this is > > the case. > > > >drat, I would have thought SVGA would imply something higher than the >straight VGA resolution I recall reading this suggestion on the 'net. I don't remember the resolutions you can get, but I'm pretty sure you are limited to 16 colors. You are basically using it as a plain unaccelerated card so you can't expect too much out of it. My suggestion is to try it and see what resolution you can get it up to... Terry's suggestion of trying to "fool" the server is also worth a try, but I assume it probably won't work (otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion, would we :-) ) Since this is a FreeBSD list, I should mention that under normal text modes there is no problem with the Stealth DRAM/Trio64 combo. The compatiblity issue is a XFree86 one, not a FreeBSD one. Regards -- Ken ---- Ken Hughes | "I can't believe this is my life; (khughes@uop.edu) | I'm going to have to send my SAT Electrical and Computer Engr | scores to San Quentin instead of University of the Pacific | Stanford..." _Heathers_