From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 05:17:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14639 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 05:17:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA14630 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 05:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199804071216.IAA26990@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:17:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: David Kelly cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-Reply-To: <199804070057.TAA02494@nospam.hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, David Kelly wrote: > 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. Where can xengine be found? I will run it on my machine and post results. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message