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From: evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu)
Date: 29 Mar 94 03:11:54 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) (looking like Zeos)
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From: evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (jeffrey d evans)
Date: 28 Mar 1994 22:11:54 -0500
evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (jeffrey d evans) writes:
>Hi all,
> I will be in the position to recomend a Pentium machine to purchase and had
a
>few questions about the few PCI cards out there.
>
> What high performance graphics cards are there for the PCI local bus that
are
>out and have decent support for them. I want to keep all my options open as
>far as operating systems go(OS/2, Linux(Xfree86), NeXtStep, NetBSD...). I
also
>want to atleast a 1280x1024 256 colors 72hz noninterlaced top resolution and
>display rate(I will consider others though).
< rest of my post hacked >
Thanks for all the info that people have sent my way. The posts got a little
confusing there for a while(kind of my fault) because I had originaly
cross-posted to many different operating system groups.
I think I'm going with a Zeos system. It's not my first choice, but it has
about what I want(I think) and I have to buy everything from one company(plus
it doesn't hurt that the guy signing the money order seems to like them).
here's the specs:
Pantera 60 or 66 Pentium system
Diamond stealth pro PCI 2mb vram(maybe 1mb) S3928
on board fast scsi2 controller (adaptic 6360 chip set?)
Nec 17" monitor (don't know which one yet, fg, fge, or fgp)
I think the Diamond should be pretty well supported(even some Xfree users use
it :) it got the highest score on the lastest Graphics card benchmarks
survey(21 Mar 94)). I think it should be pretty compatible on the basis that
it
uses the S3928 chipset. Anyone find different.
The only scary part is the scsi2 controller. All the info I have is that it
is an adaptec 6360 controller chip. Anyone using this? Scsi is very important
as many of the items here are unix/scsi already. Obviously they must have
dos/windows support, but does any one know of other operating systems(OS/2,
Linux(Xfree86), NeXtStep, NetBSD(Xfree86)...)? Should I just go with an IDE
drive and get the $49 chip for scsi support also?
Any comments from all you OS/2, Linux(Xfree86), NeXtStep, NetBSD(Xfree86)
users
are always welcome.
thanks again,
Jeff
P.S. I do know that diamond is being anal about some sort of code release
policy
so XFree86 won't support it, but people seem to be using the VLbus version fine
with the XF86_S3 server(version 2.0).
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