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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!darkstar!not-for-mail From: alex@darkstar.ping.at (Alexander Sanda) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why *I'M* not happy with XInside's Matrox support (was Re: Sometimes you need X server source) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 30 Mar 1996 21:33:45 GMT Organization: STYX Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4jk9bp$2mg@darkstar.my.lan> References: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> <4jhl5p$59t@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: k133.ping.at X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14029 comp.os.linux.development.system:20530 comp.os.linux.x:28347 comp.os.linux.hardware:35224 comp.os.linux.setup:48675 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:417 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2949 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2716 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16515 In article <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> Sean Reifschneider (jafo@ariel.tummy.com) wrote: > Yeah, the theory is that you spend $100 and get customer support. However, > theory and reality rarely meet. I've had the XInside server for about 3 months > now, running on a Matrox Millenium board. It has never worked to my > satisfaction, and I'm NOT hard to please. I don't feel it's too much to ask > that the server not sporadically thrash the font cache, and not leave > garbage behind on the screen when I move a window. I had the same problems with corrupted fonts (it happened only to one family of fonts). Some weeks ago, I got the latest matrox driver update from the XInside ftp server, and it solved the problems _completely_. The one and only problem, which is still present, are some strange things when running Netscape 2.x with 16bit color depth. (sometimes, menus are leaving strange blue lines). > ANYTHING from XInside. But, they offered to give me a refund if I wasn't > happy -- I'll probably be doing that and getting the latest RedHat with > MetroX (for $49, can't beat that). It's really cheap, but as far as I know, MetroX cannot beat Accel-X in performance. > As far as performance, I've come nowhere near the 750K XStones that was > promised by XInside's advert, they must have been running some funky > mode... In practice, the Matrox is quite fast, even when running 24bpp. > Certainly much quicker than my Mach64 with VRAM. Both on a 133MHz P5. I have a P133 on an ASUS MB with 64megs of RAM and 512 K PB-cache. Xbench reaches about 740 - 770K Xstones (the values vary a bit, depending on kernel version, and maybe the weather :-) ), but only when running under 8bit color depth. 16- and 24bpp are somewhat slower. regards -- A. Sanda Vienna, Austria email: alex@darkstar.ping.at powered by Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------