From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 06:27:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA21548 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from blah.a.isar.de (root@blah.a.isar.de [194.45.233.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA21537 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roell@localhost) by blah.a.isar.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA00174; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:06:04 +0100 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:06:04 +0100 From: Thomas Roell Message-Id: <199602271406.PAA00174@blah.a.isar.de> To: Seppo Kallio Cc: Thomas Roell , "Amancio Hasty Jr." , multimedia@star-gate.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * GUS PnP Pro + ATI WinTurbo + XFree + 1200*900*24 * In-Reply-To: References: <199602231155.MAA00516@blah.a.isar.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In your message of 27 February 1996 you write: > On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, Thomas Roell wrote: > > In your message of 23 February 1996 you write: > > > > > > 2. Is ATI WinTurbo with 4M VRAM good solution? Is someone using it > > > > and getting 24 bit colors to the screen with about 1152*900 resolution > > > > (or better)? > > > > > > I would check out Xinside's Xserver and see what they have to offer 8) > > > > If I were you I would perfer a 968 board over a mach64 board, if you > > want to do 32bpp. Have to be careful here not to say anything bad > > about any of our customers. > > We had some problems using Diamond S3 968 with Nokia Multigraph 447X. > Nokia admits there is some problems ("signal of S3 is not good enough" or > something like that). Has someone experience which monitor (17") would > work best/better with S3 968? Sorry, but if somebody at Nokia told you that, then they are really clueless or simply incompetent. First off the signals are coming from the ramdac and not the 968 (which in your case is either a TVP3026 or a IBM526). I have heard a couple of really stupid excuses and have invented a couple or really stupid ones for our customers, but this is really to hopelessly wrong ... What mode are you trying to get displayed ? - Thomas