Hi all !
I'd like to buy an Elsa winner 2000 avi/3d,
that is , a S3 ViRGE/VX with a 220Mhz Ramdac a 2/4 Mb. EDO-VRAM
I read in the README.S3V that this card should work in 16 bpp.
Is this ok ?
Thanks in advance
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by Alexandre Lebru » Tue, 29 Apr 1997 04:00:00
Hi all !
I'd like to buy an Elsa winner 2000 avi/3d,
that is , a S3 ViRGE/VX with a 220Mhz Ramdac a 2/4 Mb. EDO-VRAM
I read in the README.S3V that this card should work in 16 bpp.
Is this ok ?
Thanks in advance
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by Marty Fergus » Wed, 30 Apr 1997 04:00:00
On 28 Apr 1997 20:59:48 GMT, Alexandre Lebrun
>Hi all !
>I'd like to buy an Elsa winner 2000 avi/3d,
>that is , a S3 ViRGE/VX with a 220Mhz Ramdac a 2/4 Mb. EDO-VRAM
>I read in the README.S3V that this card should work in 16 bpp.
>Is this ok ?
>Thanks in advance
>--
And, as you stated, the current distribution supports only
the 16 bit mode. If you're feeling brave, go to Xfree86.org and
check out the new version. Test it. Mail me back. Thx.
Marty
ApeX Systems Integration Corp.
Free BSD & Linux to boot...
by John J. Rimel » Thu, 01 May 1997 04:00:00
> I read in the README.S3V that this card should work in 16 bpp.
> Is this ok ?
> Thanks in advance
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1. S3 ViRGE/VX boards (was Re: Virge dotclocks - DS3D 2000 or 3000?)
I have been in touch with them. They said they've had no reports of
problems with the STB board, though they also didn't explicitly say they'd
heard it works.
I do have another couple of questions for the group on this, though: In
order to get SOME idea of whether this all will work, I pulled the Number
Nine 332 (S3 ViRGE, but not ViRGE/VX) board from my office computer and
temporarily installed it in my home system. I ran xbench on it, and
found that it got 163,363 xstones at 1024x768x(8 bpp) or 92,908 xstones
at 1024x768x(16 bpp), which is rather pathetic for a boad like this --
the ET4000/W32p card I've got now gets 150,707 xstones at 1024x768x(8
bpp) with XFree86 (124,389 with Metro-X). (This is with version 3.2 of
XFree86 for both ET4000/W32p and ViRGE.) Now, I understand that the
current ViRGE drivers are incomplete (xbench results are particularly bad
in the arc and text categories, but 1.5-3x better than the ET4000/W32p
results in other categories), so I've two questions:
1) How much better is the ViRGE/VX than the non-VX ViRGE?
2) How much are the XFree86 ViRGE drivers likely to improve? The
documentation says further acceleration is on the "to-do" list,
but roughly where can we expect to see overall performance
settle -- at 1.1x current levels, 2x, or what?
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