Video-Cards

# 4 Video-Cards

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Linux people have successfully used # 9 XGE Level 12, ELSA Winner 1000, and S3928 video cards. The new XFree86(tm)-3.1 does support boards with the tseng et4000/w32 in accelerated mode now, as well as S3 Vision 864 and 964 chipsets including boards like the ELSA Winner 1000Pro and 2000Pro, Number Nine GXE64 and GXE64Pro, Miro Crystal 20SV). 16bpp mode (65K colors instead of the usual 256) support for Mach32 boards as well as 32bpp for some S3 boards and the P9000 boards has been added. see more details in the XFree86(tm)-3.1 announcements.

The Mach64 is only supported as dumb vga-card, no accelerated mode available at XFree86(tm)-3.1.

tldraben@eos.ncsu.edu reported:

- Diamond Stealth W32 -- Text mode works, X11 suffered from "pixel dust"
- ET4000/W32 -- unbearable (should be better by now)
- # 9GXEL13 -- Works, virtual consoles corrupted when switched. Had to buy card from Dell.

Genoa Phantom 8900PCI card seems to work well. Genoa Phantom/W32 2MB does not work in an ASUS-Board. Tseng 3000/W32i chipset seems to work well. Spea-v7 mercury-lite works perfectly since XFree86-2.1.

ATI Graphics Ultra Pro for PCI with 2MB VRAM and an ATI68875C DAC run well as dem@skyline.dayton.oh.us tells us: "It's humming right along at 1280x1024 w/256 colors @74Hz non-interlaced. Looks great."

Paradise WD90C33 PCI did lock up on screensaver/X - this has been solved in the newer versions of the kernel. jbauer@badlands.NoDak.edu (John Edward Bauer)

miroChrystal 8S/PCI (1MB) S3 - no problem.

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