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From: aflundi@sargon.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support Cyrix 6x86 P166+ ?
Date: 31 Jan 1997 16:13:37 GMT
Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM
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In article <5cqv6a$g23@boursy.news.erols.com>,
M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans  <mcampbel@erols.com> wrote:
>"Lawrence W. Lee" <llwk@spider.net.hk> wrote:
>
>> [ ... ]
>
>>i.  Does FreeBSD support Matrox Millenium?  I've got an MGA with 4Mb
>>WRAM.
>
>Yes, it does.  Actually, the support is in XFree86, so this applies to
>linux as well.  Version 3.2 supports the Millennium in the XF86_SVGA
>server in either 8-bit (256-color) or 16-bit (65,000-color) modes.

The Matrox Millenium will also do 24-bit TrueColor
under XFree86 3.2.  With 4MB it can be run at
1280x1024x24.






--alan
-- 
Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>