Absolutely right. Don't go for one of these cards. I spent the best part of a weekend trying to configure one of these things (including all of Sat/Sun night), and failed quite dismally. Although it could fall back to a VGA configuration, the server ran unusably slowly (don't know why).
The trouble is that there is insufficient info available to create a working XF86Config modeline. Go for something else. Casper Boden-Cummins. >---------- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 19 August 1996 10:28 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. >Subject: Re: dosemu > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Well, I'm currently using a Cirrus Logic GD5434, which works fine >>with XFree in 8 bit mode, but produces streaks at higher bpp's. Anyway, >>I'm getting a Matrox soon, a real speedster. Thanx for your time... > >I'd suggest not getting a Matrox card -- I believe they're not >supported >by XFree86 because Matrox won't release technical details of their >cards. Go for something S3-based instead... > >Regards, > >Dave Holland > >
