From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 01:00:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29540 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29518 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.200] EHLO hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: root [port 4070]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <111141-215>; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:59:34 +0000 Received: from hafner@localhost by hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <7619-22585>; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:59:14 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 release timetable (bt848 issue) References: <199808270154.VAA02845@laker.net> From: Walter Hafner Date: 27 Aug 1998 09:59:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com's message of "27 Aug 1998 04:12:26 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com (Steve Friedrich) writes: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:44:11 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > > >And, two questions for the price of one, I'm proposing a new machine with a > >Millenium2-200 AGP video card. Is this well-supported by Xfree86? > > I'm pretty sure the answer is: > They are just now getting the tech specs from Matrox, so therefore the driver hasn't had the first byte written yet... > > BUT, you might like to check out the X server available from www.xinside.com, also known as www.xig.com > They have a downloadable demo that you could try, and if you like it, their server only costs $100. > That's not much money to avoid waiting and wrestling with XFree86. Been there, done that: w3projns# cat /etc/Xaccel.ini ... [SCREEN] Board = "matrox/mga-g200g8.xqa"; Monitor = "mfreq/mfreq76.vda"; Visual = TrueColor; Overlays = YES; ... Works great. :-) -Walter -- Walter Hafner_______________________________ hafner@in.tum.de *CLICK* The best observation I can make is that the BSD Daemon logo is _much_ cooler than that Penguin :-) (Donald Whiteside) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message