Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-12 Thread Nico De Ranter
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-10 Thread Douglas Bates
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth II S220

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-10 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about graphic

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-08 Thread Britton
The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, but you might as well get one which you can use to it's full potential. On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question:

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest and graphics performance is not an issue at all. I didn't every board could be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my Diamond FireGL at home :-) Thanks, Nico The S3 Virge has

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:35:08AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest and graphics performance is not an issue at all. I didn't every board could be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-08 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI I use S3 Trio 64 with 2 MB memory on my home computer with XF86_S3 and have no problems at all. S3 VIRGE PCI Probabaly it

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-08 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: [cut] Mystique Mystique 220 is not good for X :) I'm interested to know why you say that? I have a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4megs of ram and I haven't yet had a problem with X. The support for the Matrox cards is still in the early stages,

Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-07 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about graphic performance and possibilities what should be the safest

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Nico De Ranter hat gesagt: // Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about

RE: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-07 Thread John Marter
From: Frank Barknecht[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 9:05 AM To: Debian Subject: Re: Graphics Board URGENT Nico De Ranter hat gesagt: // Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about graphic