From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 09:33:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15798 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15786 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA04943; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:32:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA06235; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:32:52 -0600 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:32:52 -0600 Message-Id: <199804071632.KAA06235@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Remy NONNENMACHER Cc: Mike Smith , Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-Reply-To: References: <199804070349.UAA00237@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If you can live with swarming ants, random pixel garbage and occasional > > snow, by all means go for it. Otherwise, hang back a few months and > > let the nice XFree MII hackers finish the job. > > Strange! You have problems i seen only on the first version of the old > matrox with XIG 1.2. I see problems as well with both XIG/XFree86 on my MII, so he's not alone. > I use 2 matrox cards (1600x1200 and 1800x1400 Multi-headed) with Xig4 and > have no problems !!. (cards; MII, 1AGP, 1PCI, all two 8Mb). Have you tried using 'visuals' on XIG? Also, I haven't tried the latest XFree86, but I used the SuSE server, which worked but had some (minor) screen corruption problem. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message