Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:18:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 5x86 and K5 systems/XF86 and the Matrox Mystique card... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970324111509.14925D-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199703241650.JAA00273@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. Excellent cards, shop well and $70 will get you a generic S3Virge with 4 Meg EDO Ram. The only problem is, 24/32 bpp modes aren't supported in XF32. XF32A supports 24 bpp mode for the non VRAM Virge, but reportedly Netscape and a few other programs have problems running in this mode with the S3Virge server.
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