From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 27 10:37:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21481 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arthur.caida.org (arthur.caida.org [204.212.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21451 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:37:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwm@arthur.caida.org) Received: from arthur.caida.org (localhost.caida.org [127.0.0.1]) by arthur.caida.org (8.9.0/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id MAA05102; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:37:20 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199901271837.MAA05102@arthur.caida.org> Location: CAIDA Ann Arbor, MI To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: Jake , The Hermit Hacker , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What Video card to buy... In-reply-to: Message from of Wed Jan 27, 1999 9:37 EST <199901271437.JAA22119@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:37:20 -0500 From: Daniel McRobb Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The #9 Ticket to Ride 4 and that 19" SGI LCD monitor sound like a > > nice combo, if you can foot the $3K. > > This is a wonderful combo, if you can afford it. I think the street price > is a bit less than $3K; we got a few via Ingram Micro for somewhat less > than that. > > Note that this combination isn't supported by XFree86, but is supported > by the XIG Accelerated-X package. This is the most crisp display I've > ever used, and th 1600x1024 resolution is sorta nice too. XFree86 3.3.3.1 supports the Revolution IV (I have the 32M card), as well as the SGL LCD panel. I ran it last night at 1600x1200 with 32bpp (but I don't have the SGI LCD). For what it's worth, I switched back to my Matrox Millenium II 8M for 2D; the picture quality is better, it's faster at 2D (and the server doesn't consume 50M of memory at startup like XF86_I128 did), and the server supports DGA. I'm waiting for the Xi OGL product on FreeBSD to have windowed, hardware-accelerated OpenGL for the Revolution IV (early development release is already available for Linux). That's the only reason I bought the Rev IV. If more people bugged Xi, the FreeBSD release of OGL might happen sooner... Daniel ~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message