From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 20:49:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02721 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA02706 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA24959; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:18:46 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706190348.NAA24959@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: When FreeBSD Desktop? In-Reply-To: <20138.866691061@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 18, 97 08:31:01 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:18:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jroberts@ashland.edu, francisco@natserv.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Just a gotcha with Xaccel right now; there's a serious bug in their > > Matrox driver that gives you garbled colours on current-model > > Milleniums. Everything works OK, but colours as-seen on the the > > screen are all wrong. This is giving me the pip as we have a pile of > > systems here that we can't ship until this is finished 8( > > Are you sure? We've got tons of Milleniums here and haven't seen any > problems with Xaccel 3.1. Are these, like, brand new Milleniums just > released this week or something? :) No, we've had these for at least a month; they're 4M MGA-220's. Xi said that one of the chips (the TI ramdac, I think) was a newer revision than the one they were using. Nevertheless, we have quite a pile of these cards, and they all exhibit the same symptoms. I'd need a camera to actually show you, as the server thinks the colours are fine. Right now I just want a bomb to put under XI's butts; we were counting on these guys working and so far we've only been saved by the laziness of the trading company our customer is using. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[