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int877w@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang) writes:

>Farrell McKay (fbm@nms.otc.com.au) wrote:

>> Genoa recently announced a new SVGA card called the Phantom 8900VL,
>> based on the ET4000/W32i chip.  It is supposedly a *very* fast card.
>> (check out the marketing blurb, below).

>I don't believe that X-Free crew have worked on accelerated drivers
>for the w32/w32i series of Tseng chips yet.  At the moment, I believe
>that you will only get the ET4000 drivers to work.  Do you own 
>the card (I mean, is it available over here in Australia?)

No, I don't own the card.  I have been considering it as part of a new
486 system, intended to run Linux.  I have seen WinTach ratings for the
card that place it at 36 million winmarks (the Diamond Viper scores
50 million winmarks on the same scale), so the card has the muscle to
do high speed graphics.  It is also available in Australia (with a bit
of hunting), but technical specs are hard to come by.  I haven't been
able to find out its refresh rates at each resolution, or the number of
colours the 2Meg model supports at each resolution.  It costs around
$400 AUD.

Farrell.