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lamble@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Stuart Lamble) writes:

>Mark Heath (mheath@netspace.net.au) wrote:
>: tommy-carlos williams (infinitum@deathsdoor.com) wrote:
>: : David...
>: : i have an ET6000 4Mb card.... i have absolutely NO troubles with
>: : 1024x768 16bpp...
>: : i haven't tried 1280x1024... but i probably should ... heheh
>: : i might do that tomorrow night :)
>: 
>: : the ET6000 card is the best card i've ever owned....
>: : you'll love it...
>: 
>: Which Xfree server are you running ? 
>: SVGA or W32 ?

>It's best these days to run ET6000 cards under the SVGA server. Development
>on the W32 server has all but halted, with all efforts going towards
>accelerating performance in SVGA.

>(Not really true anymore, actually - efforts are now going towards the
>loader technology donated by MetroX. It's kinda neat, actually. The next
>release should _really_ fly..)

>Stuart, speaking for himself only. I'm not affiliated with XFree, apart
>from being one of their beta testers.

Well .. I finally got one.
And ... yes it does do 1280x1024x16bpp ...
but ... it does it with artifacts on the screen when you scroll etc
(ie. when you use the accelerator)

and .... it can and will cause a machine crash/Xserver death when you
use an 'old' dma device. (in my case .. a PAS-16)
So .. I am running in 1280x1024x16bpp with 'Option "noaccel"' which makes
it run a whole lot more stable, cleans up most of the glitches but fairly
slowly :(.
(btw in 1024x768x16bpp it did not have the artifacts .. but it did
in 1152x864x16bpp)

I am kinda pine-ing for my 2Meg S3 Trio64, which was rock solid and perfect
at 1152x900x16bpp.
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