From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 15 03:21:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA20877 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 03:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [208.220.66.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA20853 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 03:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dufault@hda.hda.com) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA16723 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 06:16:37 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199802151116.GAA16723@hda.hda.com> Subject: Cyrix MediaGX To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 06:16:33 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm looking to update six 8MB 486DX2-66 systems collecting data to something with a bit more oomph. I bought one of the Cyrix MediaGX moetherboards mainly for price - a 180Mhz motherboard with everything and 32MB memory was about $280.00. FreeBSD installs OK and it works fine for the intended use. Though I didn't buy it for multimedia, xfree86 doesn't support it other than 640x480 VGA16 (I'll try Poul's recent changes to get 800x600). Before I buy five more does anyone want to comment on the MediaGX - quality of the architecture, design wins in low end systems, ease of working with Cyrix, possible future support under xfree, etc. I did a bit of websearching and other than support under that Linux "gg?" project I couldn't find out much. Those hits implied typical non-disclosure nonsense waived for Linux. I found no pointers to full technical docs at Cyrix, and Xinside doesn't currently support it either. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message