Re: Video Cards
psiko wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> Some Matrox cards use a popular 3D accelerator chip named S3 ViRGE/VX.
> "ViRGE" is just a model name S3 uses to differentiate from their plain old
> non-3D chips. "ViRGE /VX" is the same as the "ViRGE" model except that it
> uses the much faster VRAM and hence the g'damned high retail price.
>
None of the Matrox cards are using S3 ViRGE.
> Though the Matrox card is not listed in XFree86, I'm pretty sure you may
> use the "Generic S3 ViRGE/VX" servers/drivers. I have been using a card
> with S3 ViRGE/VX configured with the Generic driver for months now and it
> works GREAT.
There is a server for Matrox card, the name of the server is something
like SMGA.
Lawrence Chim,
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