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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: DEC PC Owners (or DEC Employees), need S3-864 graphics help
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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 01:47:54 GMT
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In article <2vmi3a$sre@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <2vhet9$cij@louie.udel.edu>,
>Paul S. Masters <landru@daffy.cis.udel.edu> wrote:
>>My New DEC pc arived yesterday with a serious problem. The S3-928 PCI
>>card, orriginally ordered, was substituted with an S3-864 PCI card. I
>
>The bottom line is that you can get the server that is floating around
>on the net for FreeBSD and run it on your card NOW, but it may not work
>perfectly. Or, you can get the older/slower board and run it w/out
>problems but take the performance hit (around 40%). I'd say run with
>the 864 board and try to find the server on the net.
>
>
No, crashes on my system and I have used the X server for quite
a while. I say that the S3 864 chipset is in better shape than the S3 928
chipset and faster :) The XF86_S3 server used to crash here at least once or
twice or week with my old Actix S3 928 card.
For the record:
OS: FreeBSD
CPU: P66 512k cache 16MB of memory
card: Actix S3 864 2MB of DRAM
monitor: Nanao Flexscan f550i 17" color monitor
soundcard: Gravis Ultrasound
Have fun,
Amancio
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