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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!news.inc.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Inter.NL.net!usenet From: C.deGroot@inter.NL.net (Cees de Groot) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 29 Mar 1996 15:15:57 +0100 Organization: I still need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4jgrat$46t.C.deGroot@news.inter.NL.net> References: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4jc1cv$ja4@library.erc.clarkson.edu> <4jc79v$h11@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ah98-27.arnhem.nl.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13963 comp.os.linux.development.system:20419 comp.os.linux.x:28214 comp.os.linux.hardware:35056 comp.os.linux.setup:48367 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:391 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2913 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2683 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16405 In article <4jc79v$h11@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Jason V. Robertson <jroberts@uiuc.edu> wrote: > >XF86 gave me 64K colors with my Mach32. Did you have a wierd version of it or >something? I use XF86 and it's a very good piece of software. The only >reason I would ever consider buying AccelX is if I were to buy a card that >XF86 doesn't support. > Do it the other way around. When I wanted to upgrade my card, I checked whether current versions of XF86 supported a very cheap and fast card (Trio64) that I had in mind. Luckily, Harald Koenig just finished his job so I could buy the card (and had some money to spare for LI :-)). Forget matrox. Or better: start bombing them with mails like the one that started this thread - they'll turn around, like some others already did... -- Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.NL.net> OpenLink Software, Inc.