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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:3649 comp.os.linux:7655 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Pointers to a list of Graphics Cards for X386 Keywords: X386 and Graphics Cards Message-ID: <8_6mmm#.hasty@netcom.com> Date: 14 Aug 92 02:35:28 GMT References: <ganter.713753841@milton> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 15 Currently, I am using a Diamond SpeedStar with 1MB (et4000 based). X386 1.2E 1.0.[12] and the stock X386 server has been able to work with my card. I am writing a driver for the Diamond Stealth (S3 based, chipset 911). I swap my card for the Stealth so I didno't have to pay the full price for the card which runs around $245. Why the S3 based card, VRAM memory and built-in graphics functions such as bitblt and access to the 1MB of memory in the cpu via 16 bit. Later on the year the 928 will come out and another friendly visit to my dealer so I may have full 32 bit data access to my system and upto 3 times better performance than my Stealth. Of course the 928 will be installed in a local bus system capable of upto 100MB per second data transfer rate. Hope this helps, Amancio