I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found (v6969, 14 November 1995) doesn't list these cards as being supported in XFree86.
Does anyone have any experience running these cards under X? What does "ViRGE" mean? It is printed with a trade mark symbol following it, as if it is proprietary, but I notice several brands of cards use it in their model names. Bob