Very Computer

I just ordered a new PC that comes with a TRIDENT 9680 2MB video card.
I can't find mention of that card in any of the Linux XFree86 docs.

Can someone tell me if it's supported in the current or beta
release of XFree86?

If not, I have my eye on a:
"64-Bit S3 Vision864 4MB PCI Graphics Accelerator DEC's Model #PCXAG-AL"

I see the 864 chipset is supported.  Can anyone tell me how well
it works?    Thanks in advance,

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System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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It works very well up to 16bit colour, but there is very pronounced
snowing at 24 bit. It is between 2/3 and 1/3 as fast as a S3-968
card I owned previously (slowest at high colour deoths). It was however
1/4 of the price.

There is some corruption of the screen under certain cirmustances -
for instance, waggling a 16-bit opaque window over a 16-bit background
results in a (small) number of white dots appearing. Refreshing the
display removes the dots.

There are paremters for XConfig that are needed to remove snowing at
16 bit. See the S3.README for details.

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