From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 11:14:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA07116 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA07109 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05349; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:14:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 11:14:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X server performance and video cards In-Reply-To: <199711010101.TAA08922@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > Is that still the prevailing wisdom? I've seen S3-Virge-based cards dirt > cheap, is there a risk with one of those? The Virge cards are great at 24 bpp and less. The only problem I ever had with them is getting a high enough dotclock out of them to do 1024x768x32bpp @ 80hz. Oh, and the Virge are limited as to what acceleration they will do at 32bpp.