Re: Video Cards

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Robert D. Hilliard 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?
> 

I'm using an STB Powergraph 3D, which uses the S3 ViRGE. As many others
have stated, you must have XFree 3.2. For some reason my X server
refuses to run 1024x768 with 16-bit color (I have 2MB ram). Other than
that it works great! (I know the card/monitor can handle this res/depth
because I use it in Win95.)

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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com