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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:55:13 +0100
From:      Thomas Roell <roell@blah.a.isar.de>
To:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>, multimedia@star-gate.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: * GUS PnP Pro + ATI WinTurbo + XFree + 1200*900*24 * 
Message-ID:  <199602231155.MAA00516@blah.a.isar.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602231051.CAA07661@rah.star-gate.com>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.91ska.960223121853.463B-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi> <199602231051.CAA07661@rah.star-gate.com>

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In your message of 23 February 1996 you write:

>  > 2. Is ATI WinTurbo with 4M VRAM good solution? Is someone using it 
>  >    and getting 24 bit colors to the screen with about 1152*900 resolution 
>  >    (or better)?
> 
> I would check out Xinside's Xserver and see what they have to offer 8)

Hmm ... Since our name was mentioned here ... The WinTurbo RAMDAC has
a problem with 32bpp resolutions. Basically it looks like the maximum
pixel-clock you can get is roughly 100MHz. That means it flickes
somewhat. Xaccel uses a 24bpp mode (3 byte pixels), which needs less
bandwidth for display. In this mode a maximum of 135MHz is possible.

> If you like XFree86 then an S3 968 PCI with 4MB of VRAM is not a bad 
> choice either from #9 or Diamond. I have a Diamond S3 968 PCI with 4 MB
> of VRAM. I usually run it at 1024x768*32.

If I were you I would perfer a 968 board over a mach64 board, if you
want to do 32bpp. Have to be careful here not to say anything bad
about any of our customers.

- Thomas



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