From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 10:03:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22459 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA22452 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA00273; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:50:12 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:50:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199703241650.JAA00273@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 5x86 and K5 systems/XF86 and the Matrox Mystique card... In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970323212417.00855830@mail.sns.com> References: <3.0.32.19970323212417.00855830@mail.sns.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mohan Srinivasan wrote: % I was also looking to buy a Matrox Mystique card. Is this card supported % by XF86 ? Are there any known problems with this card, as far as running X % is concerned ? Ludwig Pummer writes: > Last I heard, the Mystique is _not_ yet supported by XF86. The Millenium > (what I have) was recently added to the SVGA server, so you might want to > read the Readme for the SVGA server and see if support for the Mystique has > been added yet. If you're looking for a 3D card, the S3Virge chipset is currently supported. It is listed as "alpha" level by XFree86.ORG, but seems to work pretty well. I've not experienced any crashes, but I do occasionally get really annoying screen "tears" and an occasional flash. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com