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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: 1152 x 864 mode for S3 X-server?
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In article <50ap7j$gls@nntp5.u.washington.edu> xyzzy@u.washington.edu (Trent Piepho) writes:
>Here's mine, for 1152x864, which gives a proper aspect ratio, unlike
>1152x900.

Also, I believe the S3 server can make good use of a little "spare"
video memory for font and pixmap caching, so performance may be better
at 1152x864.

-- Richard
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