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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: X11 problem (Stealth64)
Message-ID: <DLLAKB.Fqp.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4dcp3d$hgr@news.n2.net> <DL84GC.998.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4dni0d$9f2@news.n2.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:48:10 GMT
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In article <4dni0d$9f2@news.n2.net> jgibbons@n2.net (Jeff Gibbons) writes:
>does anyone have any suggestions for a PCI video board which is available
>now, which performs reliably under FreeBSD/XFree86? Or is there anyone who
>is successfully using the Diamond Stealth64 2001 PCI (the one with the
>Trio64 chip)?
I just got a #9 Vision 330 which is a Trio64 with 2MB DRAM, and it
seems fine and fairly inexpensive. The high end #9 boards are also
supposed to be good. I've read that the performance is poor with only
1MB, though (maybe it needs 2MB to do 64-bit wide transfers?).
-- Richard
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