From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 7 11:58:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18414 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:58:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18405; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29135; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:57:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA13533; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806071857.LAA13533@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: X11 problem? In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan [Sm_rgrav]" at "Jun 7, 98 04:45:46 pm" To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.com, malte@webmore.com, kline@thought.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Dag-Erling Coidan [Sm_rgrav]: > Gary Kline writes: > > Anyhow, back to the W32 problem, one of the XFree86 people > > tells me that the W32 server has known flaws. ((I read some > > of them. This one may not have been reported until now.)) > > If you're running XFree86 3.3.x, you should probably consider using > the SVAG server instead of the W32 server: > > > > The SVGA driver for ET4000 chipsets supports all color depths (8, 15, 16, 24 > and 24 bpp) on most ET4000 chips starting with the ET4000W32i. The ET4000W32 > only supports 8bpp. Depending on the RAMDAC and the support code in the SVGA > server, some cards may only support a few of these color depths, or even only > 8bpp. > > > > XF86_W32 gets phased out, now that the SVGA server with XAA acceleration is at > least as fast as the W32 server but supports more cards and for some even > higher color depths. For details about using the XF86_SVGA with W32 cards, look > below. Note that currently not all cards that are accelerated by XF86_W32 are > accelerated by XF86_SVGA at this moment (only ET6000 and ET4000W32p to be > exact). > Thanks. I wasn't clear on this until your posting encouraged me to take an hour or two and _try_ it. I've got a Cardex Challenger Pro and the latest SVGA driver does work! xvidtune has tweaked the display and it looks nice. I've already ordered ``Jordan's Pick'', the Matrox Millennium---figured that three years is worth a card upgrade. Maybe the Matrox with 4M will let me go to 1280x1024. For now, one step closer to being done upgrading. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message