Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:31:41 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: gtc@aloft.att.com.headcandy.com (gary.corcoran) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, tiamat@csd.uwm.edu Subject: Re: Cyrix CPU Message-ID: <199606270331.UAA01944@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 26 Jun 96 21:01:42 -0400. <9606270101.AA01079@stargazer>
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>>Also, could someone suggest a video card?
>>I'm considering the Matrox Millenium 4meg WRAM card, but
>>hear that it may not be compatible
>>I was told to get a Diamond Stealth 64 4meg VRAM or #9 Motion...
>I _believe_ that to run X on the Matrox card you have to _buy_ the
>XAccel X server.
I also believe I remember hearing that this is the case.
>On the other hand, the free XFree86 S3 server works fine on the
>Diamond Stealth 64 3400XL (4 Meg version, formerly called the
>Stealth 64 Video VRAM 4Meg).
I have one of these in a P100 running Windows NT, and it's a great
card. Very fast. Can't tell you how it runs X because I've never run
*BSD on that machine. I know it is supposed to be supported by
XFree86, though.
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