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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: DEC PC Owners (or DEC Employees), need S3-864 graphics help Date: 9 Jul 1994 16:09:14 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2vmi3a$sre@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2vhet9$cij@louie.udel.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2vhet9$cij@louie.udel.edu>, Paul S. Masters <landru@daffy.cis.udel.edu> wrote: >My New DEC pc arived yesterday with a serious problem. The S3-928 PCI >card, orriginally ordered, was substituted with an S3-864 PCI card. I >talked to the reps at digital, and they say the S3-864 is a better card. They >also claim %100 compatibility with a S3-928. Any one know if this card is >compatible with XFree86 or know of nondisclosure agreements preventing >XFree development with this card? Nope, as a matter of fact Amancio Hasty posted diffs to the XFree 2.1.1 server which allowed it to work on the 864 board. The 864 board *IS* a better board than the 928, but official support for it won't be in XFree86 until version 3.1 at least. (If then, I'm not sure of the status of the 864 support). The bottom line is that you can get the server that is floating around on the net for FreeBSD and run it on your card NOW, but it may not work perfectly. Or, you can get the older/slower board and run it w/out problems but take the performance hit (around 40%). I'd say run with the 864 board and try to find the server on the net. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.