Robin Regennitter wrote:
>
> On Saturday 02 December 2000 12:59 am, you wrote:
>
> I have an i810 machine and it works just fine for me with my Linux box.
> XFree86 4.0.1 does support i810 with acceleration as it produced the 24bit
> color versus 8bit on XFree 3.3.6. I was surprised that the 3D games were
> playing nice and fast. however, after playing it few times, the games became
> super slow. I stop playing the games on Linux. I'm sure that the next
> version of XFree86 bug for i810 will be fix. There is an upgrade i810 driver
> for windows at the intel site.
>
> Rob
>
> > I have an i810e and I can tell you that if its at all like the i810 you
> > have no problem. The 810 chipset really is slow. There so called
> > acceleretion on my windows box is actually slower than software rendering!
> >
> > On the plus side the 810 chipset has a built in video out. But you cant use
> > it without drivers and linus hasn't got them.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ronald J. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Mandrake Newbie Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:15 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] V7.2 questions!
> >
> > > A friend of mine installed the download version of 7.2 on his Pentium
> >
> > machine
> >
> > > with 64 megs of RAM and a i810 video setup. (its a 667mhz machine).
> >
> > Anyways, he
> >
> > > has an external modem and no matter what we do, it does not show up under
> > > hardware configuration, even though its working fine. Also, I thought
> >
> > hardware
> >
> > > acceleration was automatic with certain card/chipsets under 7.2.
> >
> > (including the
> >
> > > i810). However, any games we play are dead slow... ;-(
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > /\
> >
> > Dark><Lord
is that the way u can tell by the 24 or 32 bit color. i just learned
something if this is true, well is it ?
> >
> > > \/
