From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 7 14:59:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA25741 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA25736 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.2/8.7.5) id PAA07718; Thu, 7 Nov 1996 15:58:54 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199611072258.PAA07718@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 Success story! (fwd) To: A.C.Aitchison@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Dr Andrew C Aitchison) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 15:58:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dr Andrew C Aitchison" at Nov 5, 96 09:17:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In an earlier note in freebsd-chat, I blathered: % configure on my S3/805 board. Imagine my surprise when he returned % with a Matrox card with a ViRGE+ chip on it! ($153 for 2Mb/PCI, at % Software & More in SLC). Andrew Aitchison of XFree86.org replied: > Are you sure it was a Matrox card and a ViRGE+ chip ? I'm on the > Matrox Xfree86 team, and I thought Matrox only used their own chip > designs ? Uh, no. Sorry, must have had some synapses mis-firing. It is a Diamond Stealth 2000 3D card. I am still very impressed with the speed of this card, considering the price. I'm going to buy one with my next computer, in a few weeks. Then I'll anxiously await XFree86 support for accelerated PEX on it. Maybe it's time to learn more about the internals of PEX? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com