Re: 9600/233 video - what is it?


Subject: Re: 9600/233 video - what is it?
From: grant (ghorwood@mac.com)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 16:30:04 MST


i have an apple av 15" which was pretty top-o-the-line in its day so
that *should* do the trick. is it more worthwhile to just go out and
get an old rage 128 pci or similar and just use that?

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 09:34, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
> I've spent some time looking into this recently. I think (!) that the
> imstt driver only supports a limited range of video modes and that it only
> works if you can also get console mode acceleration first. I have had 640
> * 480 acceleration but it wasn't very good.
>
> Since I have a cheap monitor, the range of video options I can try is
> limited - with acceleration the imstt driver always seems to attempt to
> drive the monitor outside its frequency range. People who have had success
> seem to be using good multiscan monitors.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
>
> --On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 16:22:09 -0500 Stefan Jeglinski
> <jeglin@4pi.com> wrote:
>
> >> > XF4.1 from ydl2.1 supports the imsttfb in a 9600 ...
> >>> I have 2 9650's with imstt cards and even accelerated X works fine ...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Nice to know, I have two 9600MP's that have the same cards and they
> >> decidedly do not work at all under YDL-1.2, even for my feeble text-only
> >> needs :)
> >
> > imstt was definitely not working in the YDL1.2 days. On my 9500 (actually
> > a PowerTowerPro) originally running 2KQ4, I kept manually upgrading
> > kernels and drivers and XFree and eventually the imstt board actually
> > started working in accelerated X. But it's still flaky - I get this
> > effect where moving anything on the screen slowly "breaks up" the pixels
> > into different colors that persist on the screen.
> >
> > It may well be that the versions of everything in YDL2.1 fix all this - I
> > haven't put YDL2.1 on the 9500 yet.
> >
> >
> > Stefan Jeglinski
> >
>
>



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