From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 7 07:50:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07558 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 07:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07468; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 07:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA14182; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:45:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:45:47 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline Cc: malte@webmore.com, kline@thought.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 problem? References: <199806021728.KAA09756@athena.tera.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-email-address-1: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (for private or study-related mail) X-email-address-2: dagsm@hypnotech.no (for job-related mail) X-email-address-3: des@FreeBSD.org (for FreeBSD-related mail) X-email-address-4: finrod@ewox.org (for demoscene-related mail) X-disclaimer-1: I speak only for myself. The views expressed in this message X-disclaimer-2: are not those of the University of Oslo, the FreeBSD project, X-disclaimer-3: or any other organization or company to which I am or have at X-disclaimer-4: some time been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 07 Jun 1998 16:45:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: Gary Kline's message of "Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline writes: > Anyhow, back to the W32 problem, one of the XFree86 people > tells me that the W32 server has known flaws. ((I read some > of them. This one may not have been reported until now.)) If you're running XFree86 3.3.x, you should probably consider using the SVAG server instead of the W32 server: The SVGA driver for ET4000 chipsets supports all color depths (8, 15, 16, 24 and 24 bpp) on most ET4000 chips starting with the ET4000W32i. The ET4000W32 only supports 8bpp. Depending on the RAMDAC and the support code in the SVGA server, some cards may only support a few of these color depths, or even only 8bpp. XF86_W32 gets phased out, now that the SVGA server with XAA acceleration is at least as fast as the W32 server but supports more cards and for some even higher color depths. For details about using the XF86_SVGA with W32 cards, look below. Note that currently not all cards that are accelerated by XF86_W32 are accelerated by XF86_SVGA at this moment (only ET6000 and ET4000W32p to be exact). -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message