Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)
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Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com> writes:
> On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> > Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's
> > noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen
> > redraws, even with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got.
>
> Old Trident Card? Hey, which one? We may be in the same boat.
It's a generic Trident 3Dimage 975 AGP card.
> I've got a Trident 3D Image and it was a pain in the arse to
> get a Modeline working with 3.3.6 (X seems to misbehave with
> this card -- if I use a line that was supposedly to use a
> refresh rate of 60Hz, then sometimes I get my monitor saying
> that the signal it is receiving is for 20Hz or something else
> below its capabilities).
That's odd -- I never really had that much trouble with my monitor
(which is a generic 17" monitor from PCWarehouse). I can get 16bit
color in 1280x1024, and that's good enough for me.
> Which card do you have? I'm also a bit scared of upgrading to
> woody after I heard about the major breakage with the libc
> upgrade...
Well, that should be all better now, and the XFree update was pretty
pain-free (aside from a couple hours reading man pages and trying to
kludge together a XF86Config file...)
john.
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