On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 05:50:01PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote (wyy sez):
>
> I need to configure a multi-monitor setup using Xinerama. I'm reading the
> Xinerama HOWTO in LDP right now, and it's already answered a lot of my
> questions.
>
> We'll be using XFree86 4.1.0. The machine is a Celeron 400MHz that
> currently has one S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP video card and a number of available
> PCI slots.
>
astig my friend!
> To those who are using the S3 Trio 3D/2X with Linux: how does this card
> perform with XFree86 4.x? Can it handle relatively good display for
> 1024x768 on a 15" monitor? I don't need 3D acceleration. I just hope the
> flicker will not make customers dizzy. ;>
>
hmmm. i am currently using a S3 Trio 3D/2X on my ancient DEC monitor.
beautiful is all i can say. no flicker. no sucky fonts. no yucky display.
just beautiful. the only pain was configuring my unsupport modelines
for my monitor. the configuration file is in my website.
> Alternatively I can get a relatively good PCI card to handle the "customer
> side" display and use the S3 Trio 3D/2X with a 14" for the "staff side"
> display. Would anyone know of PCI video cards that are still in the market
> that are relatively okay with Linux? I've got the PC Express pricelist
> right now and it's hard to make out which is AGP and which is PCI. In
> particular aside from the Trident 9750 and S3 Savage Pro's that are
> explicitly labelled "PCI", there are a number that simply don't have
> labels (no "AGP" or "PCI"). Would anyone know if the "Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64
> 32mb" is a PCI video card? Anyone have experience with this and Linux?
> (Sounds like Orly to me, hehehe).
>
dunno. but, i am pretty happy with the performance of S3 Trio 3D/2X on
XFree 4.1.0....
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