From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 04:02:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA03407 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from blah.a.isar.de (root@blah.a.isar.de [194.45.233.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03402 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 04:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roell@localhost) by blah.a.isar.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA00516; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:55:13 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:55:13 +0100 From: Thomas Roell Message-Id: <199602231155.MAA00516@blah.a.isar.de> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Cc: Seppo Kallio , multimedia@star-gate.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * GUS PnP Pro + ATI WinTurbo + XFree + 1200*900*24 * In-Reply-To: <199602231051.CAA07661@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199602231051.CAA07661@rah.star-gate.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In your message of 23 February 1996 you write: > > 2. Is ATI WinTurbo with 4M VRAM good solution? Is someone using it > > and getting 24 bit colors to the screen with about 1152*900 resolution > > (or better)? > > I would check out Xinside's Xserver and see what they have to offer 8) Hmm ... Since our name was mentioned here ... The WinTurbo RAMDAC has a problem with 32bpp resolutions. Basically it looks like the maximum pixel-clock you can get is roughly 100MHz. That means it flickes somewhat. Xaccel uses a 24bpp mode (3 byte pixels), which needs less bandwidth for display. In this mode a maximum of 135MHz is possible. > If you like XFree86 then an S3 968 PCI with 4MB of VRAM is not a bad > choice either from #9 or Diamond. I have a Diamond S3 968 PCI with 4 MB > of VRAM. I usually run it at 1024x768*32. If I were you I would perfer a 968 board over a mach64 board, if you want to do 32bpp. Have to be careful here not to say anything bad about any of our customers. - Thomas