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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:32:52 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter 
Message-ID:  <199804071632.KAA06235@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.980407095052.15685N@rs1>
References:  <199804070349.UAA00237@antipodes.cdrom.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.980407095052.15685N@rs1>

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> > 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

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