Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
  Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's
  noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen
  redraws, even with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got.
 
   Old Trident Card? Hey, which one? We may be in the same boat.

It's a generic Trident 3Dimage 975 AGP card. 

   I've got a Trident 3D Image and it was a pain in the arse to
   get a Modeline working with 3.3.6 (X seems to misbehave with
   this card -- if I use a line that was supposedly to use a
   refresh rate of 60Hz, then sometimes I get my monitor saying
   that the signal it is receiving is for 20Hz or something else
   below its capabilities).

That's odd -- I never really had that much trouble with my monitor
(which is a generic 17 monitor from PCWarehouse). I can get 16bit
color in 1280x1024, and that's good enough for me.

   Which card do you have? I'm also a bit scared of upgrading to
   woody after I heard about the major breakage with the libc
   upgrade...

Well, that should be all better now, and the XFree update was pretty
pain-free (aside from a couple hours reading man pages and trying to
kludge together a XF86Config file...)

john.


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X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
 Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's
 noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen
 redraws, even with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got.

Old Trident Card? Hey, which one? We may be in the same boat.

I've got a Trident 3D Image and it was a pain in the arse to
get a Modeline working with 3.3.6 (X seems to misbehave with
this card -- if I use a line that was supposedly to use a
refresh rate of 60Hz, then sometimes I get my monitor saying
that the signal it is receiving is for 20Hz or something else
below its capabilities).

Since I don't want to have the same problems with X4, then I'm
just waiting until some bugs more are found or people report
success with this card.

Which card do you have? I'm also a bit scared of upgrading to
woody after I heard about the major breakage with the libc
upgrade...


[]s, Roger...

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