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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: X386mono on S3 board (Was: Re: ISA is faster than EISA ?) Message-ID: <1992Oct27.124826.10360@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <1992Oct22.093459.13824@autelca.ascom.ch> <1992Oct23.010408.29746@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 12:48:26 GMT Lines: 34 eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >Norbert Bladt (nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch) wrote: [ text about a misunderstanding ISA/EISA/SCSI/Controller, etc. deleted ] >Can you give some figures. Such as iozone which is more portable. >However give details about your Hard-disk controller or SCSI-2 card, >the amount of Cache available, etc. I am sorry, but I didn't port iozone to 386BSD, yet. That is not on my list of things to do. >: BTW: Thanks for your example of an Xconfig file. I used it to get the >: X386mono server running. >What card are you using? Many people may be interested. I am using an S3 VGA board (somewhere in the manuals it says: Carrera). I know, it's a shame to (ab-)use this board with the X386mono server in the ridiculous resolution of 640x480 for X. But, I mailed the S3 (and XFree86 guru for 386BSD) (Amancio Hasty) today to find out more about his S3 server for 386BSD and whether I can use it on this board. It might be possible to use 32-bit accesses to the Video RAM because this is an EISA board. There are some problems with the X386mono server. I couldn't run any of the xperf tests. They were all reporting error messages, but didn't crash the server. Norbert. P.S. I might change to an ET-4000 board tomorrow evening just to test my new color monitor. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt