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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwa.urc.tue.nl!rcpt From: rcpt@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 45 graphic cards tested for MSWindows Message-ID: <rcpt.731580191@rwa.urc.tue.nl> Date: 8 Mar 93 08:43:11 GMT References: <rcpt.731543293@rw8.urc.tue.nl> <1993Mar8.004919.6027@netcom.com> Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: rcpt@urc.tue.nl Lines: 48 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >About S3 cards and their performance from my personal experience >with XS3: >Not all s3 based cards run at the same graphic engine speed. >So far S3 VESA Local bus cards are not showing higher performance than >their ISA cards. It is almost as if the VESA Local bus interface was >not properly design. I will find out more about this in the near >future by testing an S3 card with a faster local bus interface >(I can't named the manufacturers till I am certain that they >perform faster) ....<your S3 experience deleted>... >When I get my hands on a working S3 928 card which works with XS3, >I will let everybody know :-) I think a lot of people (like me) thinking to start with 386BSD are confused which card to buy and which X-server to run. In the mean time I have a little experience with 386BSD on our 486DX-33 with two different ET4000 boards. Given the fact I am still not able to get an ergonomic performance out of these cards, with this I mean 70 Hz at 1024x768 with 256 colors, I would be very anxious to leave the official XFree86-1.2 line and choose the XS3 server. You could help us by giving an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of the XS3 server compared to the XFree86-1.2 (and for example answer the question why XS3 is not part of XFree86-1.2) and a list of cards on which this server runs. If people provide me with the basic information I will make a summary answering questions like: - XFree86-1.2 or XS3? - if XFree86-1.2 which card? - if XS3 which card? - VLB / ISA / EISA - 386 / 486 - how much memory? Another tool that might be very helpfull would be a program that runs on MSDOS and checks if the graphic card is supported by either XFree86-1.2 or XS3. I can imagine of a program that shows a video test image (like you see on TV) which can give you an idea about the suitability of a given card in combination with a given monitor. --Piet