From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Dec 6 16:23:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27872 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27867 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00743; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199712070023.QAA00743@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: multimedia@freebsd.org cc: Thomas David Rivers , dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au Subject: Re: Millenium II and DGA? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 1997 14:13:08 EST." <199712061913.OAA00301@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 16:23:35 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA27868 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Any clues?? Tnks, Amancio ---- > > Amancio - > > A while back you wrote: > > > Just go out and get a matrox millenium with 4MB of VRAM or > > if you can find one an S3 968 with 4MB of VRAM. > > > > Cheers, > > Amancio > > and - guess what - I went out and got a Matrox Millenium II with 4 meg > of RAM. > > I'm using the SVGA server; but when I start fxtv, I still get: > > [lakes.dignus.com]$ fxtv > Direct Video not supported by visual...using XImages > > So - I thought the MGA driver (in the SVGA X server) would support > writting directly to Video RAM (i.e. DGA) - it seems to indicate this > in the HTML docs... > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! > > - Thanks - > - Dave Rivers - > >