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From: Thomas Roell <roell@devserve.xinside.com>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: Bt848 driver & Wincast -- some success 
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In your message of 12 February 1997 you write:

> Mmmm.. I am still waiting on for a list of cards which I can install
> on my system for dual display -- PCI cards.

??? Could you re-email me the question ?

I think with our current stuff we officially support only 2 Matrox
Milleniums.
 
> BTW: I know about the advantage of YUY2 vs RGB to save bandwith 
> however I don't have YUY2 support on XFree86 -- I could implement
> but will see. 

*smile* Actually the advantage is that most graphics chips allow you
one video window that has a different format than the main
display. This means you can have a 8bpp X-Display and still overlay
YUV422 (which is technically something like 16bpp).

- Thomas
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