Subject: Re: 9600/233 video - what is it?
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 16:20:01 MST
I found it much more rewarding to buy a Rage Orion ;-)
I'm currently having fun and games with a Radeon card so staying away from
the bleeding edge is a good idea too.
Iain
--On Friday, December 07, 2001 16:30:04 -0700 grant <ghorwood@mac.com>
wrote:
> 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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