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From: ss@joyride.Berkeley.EDU (Srinivasan Seshan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI with new S3 968 ???
Date: 3 Jun 1995 02:57:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) wrote:

: Hm...
: The BSDi BSD/OS book, on page 17, says that 86C928, 86C964, and 86C968 are
: supported at 1600X1280 resolution, however, it is not true.
: I bought two new Diamond Stealth 64 VIDEO VRAM (S3 86C968-p), the Xsetup
: says that the chipset is not supported. So, I went back to the dealer and
: changed one board to old Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM (S3 86C964), the X is setup,
: but then resolution has only 1280x1024.



The 968 is supported by the more recent versions of Xaccel. BSD 2.0
came with Xaccel 1.2 Beta/1. You need at least Beta/3 for 968
support. The current version is Beta/5.


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