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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 2. Try: X11 with ATI-UltraPro-VLB ? (Please help)
Date: 4 Jul 93 00:42:28
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: moos@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de's message of 4 Jul 1993 00:23:38 GMT
>> I know that X can be run on the ATI Ultra Pro with an 8514-driver.
Or with X386-SGCS on BSD/386, it runs with a "Mach32" driver which is
the native mode for that card. This is probably true of SGCS' other
platforms, too, but I only know about BSD/386.
>> Question:
>>
>> Does X support the Vesa-Local-Bus version of the ATI Ultra Pro card, too ?
You bet your booty. Moveopaque in twm is smooth as glass. Almost as good as
a NeXT :-).. Seriously, it works and it works well. The X server doesn't
know or care that the card is in a localbus slot. I guess that means it's
using 16-bit transfers, which makes me wonder how it could be faster if it
knew it could do 32-bit transfers. Perhaps Mark Snitily will comment.
--
Paul Vixie
"Be neither a conformist or a rebel,
<paul@vix.com> for they are really the same thing.
decwrl!vixie!paul Find your own path, and stay on it." (me)