From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 07:19:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08522 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 07:19:34 -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 HAA08513 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 07:19:24 -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 IAA12915; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:19:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA10881; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:18:58 -0600 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:18:58 -0600 Message-Id: <199804081418.IAA10881@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: Nate Williams , Mike Smith , Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-Reply-To: References: <199804071632.KAA06235@mt.sri.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. > > > > Are you sure you haven't bought an 'OEM' version of the card ? I'm sure it's an OEM version of the card, but it's definitely an MII, since I have all of the docs/such on it. > > 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. > > One card is 256 color, the other is overlayed (256+16M). All two use > default visual (so peudo and peudo/true). According to XIG, there *are* problems with both visuals and high=frequencies on the MII. You can't do 1600x1200@24bit, and visuals are known to be broken. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message