*BSD News Article 87786


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.170.133.5!misery.millcomm.com!news
From: John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Matrox Mellinium on Xfree86 3.2 anyone?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:29:28 +0000
Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <32EFB328.446B9B3D@millcomm.com>
References: <32EFFD1B.167EB0E7@mindspring.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-30.roch.millcomm.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386)
To: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34708

Ron Bolin wrote:
> 
> Is anyone using the Matrox Mellinium on FBSD with XFree86  3.2? If so
> does the
> driver only work in SVGA mode (max 800x600) or will it work in
> 1280x1024?
> 
> Thank's
> Ron
Ron,

It seemed to work just fine in 1280x1024 mode.  Only it seems that 
currently they only have support for a depth of 8.(256 colors)

I think they might be working on the other depths.  I think they
will have another release in February.

-- 
John Nistler