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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2352 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:55:20 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwb.urc.tue.nl!rcpt From: rcpt@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386BSD VESA compatible ET4000 boards Message-ID: <rcpt.730829714@rwb.urc.tue.nl> Date: 27 Feb 93 16:15:14 GMT Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: rcpt@urc.tue.nl Lines: 172 I am looking for ET4000 boards that support the VESA standard in the XFree86-1.2 Xserver for 386BSD UNIX: addressability refresh clock line rate rate frequency [Hz] [MHz] [kHz] 1024x 768 70 75 57 (VESA) 1152x 900 70 99 67 For 1024x768 (non-interlaced) the card should provide a clock rate of 75 MHz and for 1152x900 about 100 MHz (not 100% sure about this last rate). Most ET4000 boards only provide 65MHz enough for 60 Hz in 1024x768 but not VESA and thus not flicker-free! Some cards provide a 72MHz clock but this rate can not easily be accessed by XFree-1.2. So I would like to know from the 386BSD UNIX users which ET4000 based boards REALLY are VESA compliant. If I get enough feedback I will add this information in my overview of 17 inch monitors so other people wanting to invest in such a monitor know which card they need with this monitor to get an absolute flickerfree image. So if you have an ET4000 based board that supports the 1024x768 and/or the 11522x900 mode in minimal 70Hz I would like to know: - type description (does it work with local bus) - maximum addressability - its clock frequencies according to XFree-1.2 (as reported with `startx >& starx.log &') - its price - what monitor do you use - your experience (card + monitor) - eventually the performance in xstones. I have checked with `archie xbench.tar.Z' where the xbench program can be found. But I get a lot of different versions (size and dates). Can somebody tell us what the official version is of xbench for 386BSD UNIX? For your convenience I have collected the ET4000 boards from modeDB.txt (XFree-1.2) that should in theory be sufficient. See the end of this mail. Let me know about your ET4000 VESA card! --Piet internet: rcpt@urc.tue.nl | Piet Tutelaers bitnet: rcpt@heitue5.BITNET | Computer Center Room RC 1.90 phone: +31 (0)40 474541 | Eindhoven University of Technology fax: +31 (0)40 434438 | P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL ------------------ subset of cards from modeDB.txt---------------------------- ############################################################################### # Card: Diamond Speedstar II+ (Direct from Gateway 2000) # Contributor: Thomas Naughton [naughton@chinet.chi.il.us] # Last Edit Date: 10/17/91 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 57 72 78 68 50 62 "1152x900" ############################################################################### # Card: GA-200 Local Bus ET4000 Card # Contributor: Brian Smith [brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu] # Last Edit Date: 6/24/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 50 57 65 72 80 90 101 127 "1152x900" ############################################################################### # Card: Cardinal 700, 1M # Contributor: [hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu] # Last Edit Date: 8/29/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 32 36 40 44 31 37 "1024x768" 0 55 64 59 79 89 62 74 ############################################################################### # Card: Diamond Speedstar with HIcolor # Contributor: Arthur W. Neilson III [art@pilikia.pegasus.com] # Last Edit Date: 1/20/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 75 72 80 45 50 63 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: Diamond SpeedStar Plus w/ 1M # Contributor: Scott Everden [scott@unixland.natick.ma.us] # Last Edit Date: 10/20/91 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 65 72 79 59 50 64 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: Diamond SpeedStar Plus, High Color # Contributor: Peter Ziobrzynski [peter@modtor.uucp] # Last Edit Date: 10/16/91 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 50 57 62 66 72 78 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: Diamond SpeedStar Plus, High Color (1M) # Contributor: Jeff Coffler [coffler@jeck.mv.com] # Last Edit Date: 1/27/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 75 72 80 45 50 65 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: Orchid ProDesigner IIs # Contributor: David Wexelblat [dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com] # Last Edit Date: 10/14/91 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 32 36 40 45 75 65 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: Orchid ProDesigner IIs - board date code 12/91 # Contributor: Fan Jiao [fanj@remb6489.wpd.sgi.com # Last Edit Date: 4/13/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 32 36 40 45 80 65 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: GA-200 Local Bus ET4000 # Contributor: Neville H. Chandler [nhc@mtdcr.mt.att.com] # Last Edit Date: 10/13/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 32 36 43 45 48 65 "1024x768" 50 60 0 72 90 0 101 130 ############################################################################### # Card: Micro-Labs, Inc Ultimate VGA/HiColor 2.0 # Contributor: Matti Aarnio [mea@utu.fi, mea@nic.funet.fi] # Last Edit Date: 1/6/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 910 46 53 60 66 72 82 90 91 "1152x910" ############################################################################### # Card: SWAN sVGA (with VCO chip) # Contributor: Steve Hite [shite@sinkhole.unf.edu] # Creator: Chin Fang [fangchin@leland.stanford.edu] # Last Edit Date: 10/15/91 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1152 900 25 28 32 36 40 45 75 65 "1024x768" ############################################################################### # Card: VGA4031 # Contributor: Stephen Hocking [sgccseh@citecuc.citec.oz.au] # Last Edit Date: 8/12/92 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 32 36 40 45 50 65 "1024x768" 0 57 0 72 80 124 101 129 ############################################################################### # Card: VGA4031 # Contributor: Hartmut Kuehn Allgemeine Box IET # [KUEHNNTE@Rcms1.urz.tu-dresden.de] # Last Edit Date: 1/13/93 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ############################################################################### # Card: Tseng Labs MegaEva/1024 # Contributor: Richard Brown [rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au] # Last Edit Date: 1/27/93 # # chip ram virtual clocks default-mode flags ET4000 1024 1024 768 25 28 38 24 29 32 40 47 "1024x768" 50 57 76 45 59 64 80 95