From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 26 20:31:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA18904 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18878 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01944; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606270331.UAA01944@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: gtc@aloft.att.com.headcandy.com (gary.corcoran) cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, tiamat@csd.uwm.edu Subject: Re: Cyrix CPU In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 26 Jun 96 21:01:42 -0400. <9606270101.AA01079@stargazer> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:31:41 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------