Re: Powerstorm 300

[Patrick Caulfield <patrick@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:38:28PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:46:35AM -0800, MC wrote:
> >
> > That's not totally true: the powerstorm 4D10T in my Rawhide (AS1200)
> > works fine, as it is a Permedia 2 based card.  Not sure about any other
> > Powerstorm cards, though apparently your Powerstorm 300 is not supported
> > by XFree86.
> 
> Here's a (hopefully) complete table of PowerStorm options:
> 
> PowerStorm      Actual
> Model           Hardware
> ----------      --------
> 
> 3D10            S3 Trio64 (NT only)
> 3D30            TGA2 8-plane
> 4D10T           ELSA Gloria Synergy 8
> 4D20            TGA2 24-plane
> 4D40T           Intergraph Cateye
> 4D50T           Intergraph Cateye
> 4D51T           Intergraph Cateye
> 4D60T           Intergraph Cateye
> 
> 300             Evans and Sutherland REALimage
> 350             Evans and Sutherland REALimage
> 
> AFAIK, only 3D10, 3D30, 4D10T and 4D20 have XFree86 support.
> 

What I did was get an old Trio64V+ card off Ebay for very little money (5ukp I
think). That card works fine in Linux and VMS - IFF you put it in the right
slot on a pws433au :)

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patrick