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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:4430 comp.windows.x:60417 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:4781 comp.os.mach:3386 comp.unix.osf.osf1:1280 comp.unix.bsd:12820 comp.unix.sys5.r4:5279 comp.unix.sys5.r3:1402 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp,comp.unix.bsd,biz.univel.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.sys5.r3 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Annoucing the release of XFree86 2.0 Message-ID: <hastyCFswD9.GG6@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CFrLs5.9qC@aib.com> <hastyCFrz64.LM5@netcom.com> <2b298e$she@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 06:51:09 GMT Lines: 48 In article <2b298e$she@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <hastyCFrz64.LM5@netcom.com>, >Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >>Minor corrections: >> >> >>> Information for former XS3 users > > >>> - Real support for the S3 86C928 (no Hack needed); the server defaults >>> to use the Memory-Mapped-IO (mmio) routines for 928 boards which give >>> a significant performance boost on some operations. This can be >>> overruled with the 'chipset "s3_generic"' keyword. >> >> For quite sometime, XS3 has worked with the 928 cards;however, >> the linux support has lacked behind. >> XS3.mmio does use memory mapped i/o. > >On local bus cards? Yes!! David Greeman reported success with XS3.mmio and his #9 S3 928 VLB for nearly 4 months and this was posted several times in this group. And I have two systems: a 486DX33 and a 486DX266 VLB. >you are risking HARDWARE damage to your video card. At ~$300/card, I >would not want to be using XS3 when my card went belly-up. Note that >the limitation is for a particular RAMDAC, and not for all RAMDACS. A >fix is in the works, but the release needed to go out the door. > Once again, I was not aware of any such problems but thanks for letting me know. I assure that I am not going to wait for any fix from this group. Later, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X