From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 6 18:26:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20807 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20782 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-205.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.205]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA26152; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:26:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA02494; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:57:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804070057.TAA02494@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wilko Bulte cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers list) From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-reply-to: Message from Wilko Bulte of "Sun, 05 Apr 1998 22:55:32 +0200." <199804052055.WAA29452@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:57:47 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte writes: > I've been asked for a summary, so here it is: > > - My question was specific to whether a Matrox Millenium II would be a good > choice for (stock) Xfree and whether it would run OK on a 75Mc PCI bus. > > The general opinion seems to be that a Matrox Millenium II is indeed a very > good card, and should run without problems on a 75Mc bus. Even 83Mc buses > seem to work OK. Whether stock Xfree is OK seems to be under debate. Both > claims that stock Xfree is OK and claims that you need Xaccel are present. Interesting summary, as I may shortly be in the market to replace my 2MB Mach32 card. Was surprised nobody quoted /usr/ports/benchmarks/xengine results. It may not be much of a benchmark but its something more than seat of the pants. I get between 750 and 1000 (peak) RPM, usually in the 800's with a 2MB PCI Mach32, 1024x768 16bpp with exmh also open. 64MB PPro-200/512k. About 1100 RPM on an 800x600 16bpp P-133 Mach64 machine at work. Both are running 2.2.5-stable and XFree86 3.3.1. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message