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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: which video card for 24 bit at 1024x768 or more? Message-ID: <nrBOq20@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <4pn90b$b1p@gateman.zeus.leitch.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:29:57 UTC Lines: 12 I worked with a #9 Motion 771 not too long ago and it did pretty well with XFree86. I currently have a 486 VLB system that has a GXE Pro 64 with 4M that is very pretty. It isn't the speediest thing in the world, though. The accelerated operations, like bitblts aren't bad, but cramming an 800x600x32 (XFree86 does 24 bit color by using 32 bits per pixel and wasting 8) image into the frame buffer... -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | Like the majority of Americans, +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | I did not vote for Bill Clinton. URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |