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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47648 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3740 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:59991 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2455 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!CATFISH.LCS.MIT.EDU!metcalf From: metcalf@CATFISH.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris Metcalf) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix Date: 12 Jul 1993 17:21:38 GMT Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science Lines: 35 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <21s6j2$6ul@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <HPASANEN.93Jul12090722@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> <hastyCA1KCL.98s@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: catfish.lcs.mit.edu In article <hastyCA1KCL.98s@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <HPASANEN.93Jul12090722@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> hpasanen@cs.hut.fi >(Harri Pasanen) writes: >> >>This upgrade to Diamond SpeedStar Pro seems questionable--I think >>Xfree86 team does not support the Diamond cards? > >XS3 does not support Diamond cards and it appears that for a few >more dollars an S3 924 or an S3 801 would give the system >great graphic's performance. At least with an S3 801 you will >have better performance than a sparc 2. If you opt for an et4000 >based card such as the Diamond SpeedStar Pro you will have about >1/8 or less the performance of an S3 801 in the suggested CPU >configuration. Then again, with the Diamond cards you will have >a tough time with just about any PD X server. Followups to comp.windows.x.i386unix only. To clarify my original posting, the Diamond SpeedStar Pro seems to be a fairly generic Cirrus 5426 card. While I would have preferred a non-Diamond product, the retailer I was working with only had a cheap Genoa or some much more expensive ATI cards as options. The Cirrus is supported now (unaccelerated) by XFree86, unlike XS3. And the XFree86 team has said they will be trying for accelerated Cirrus support in the next release, which should give me good X performance, roughly comparable to cheaper S3 cards (I expect---there doesn't seem to be a good source of X benchmarks for PC cards). I believe the SpeedStar Plus is the ET4000-based card Amancio is thinking of. -- Chris Metcalf, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science metcalf@cag.lcs.mit.edu // +1 (617) 253-7766