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Before I invest in this, I'd like to hear from anyone who has XS3 (Linux)
working with the Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card. Are the speedups between XS3
and standard X386 significant? Any caveats with this card and server?
What modes does the card support?

My monitor is a CTX CVP-5468. It will drive 1024x768 interlaced. Will this
card work with my monitor? (Even though it's interlaced?).

Thanks for any info.

mdw

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: Before I invest in this, I'd like to hear from anyone who has XS3 (Linux)
: working with the Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card. Are the speedups between XS3
: and standard X386 significant? Any caveats with this card and server?
: What modes does the card support?

: My monitor is a CTX CVP-5468. It will drive 1024x768 interlaced. Will this
: card work with my monitor? (Even though it's interlaced?).

: Thanks for any info.

: mdw

I myself use the XS3 and I get very fast performance out of it using a 1280
but I do not have the VLB version of it.  If this is of any help :)

I run 1024x768 both interlaced and non-interlaced.

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: "That kernel's got a mean streak A MILE WIDE!!" --Chip Salzenberg

Mike

        As u can c from my posting about the same card u were
        talking about, this Orchid F. VLB can drive 1024x768
        non-interlaced at 70 refreshing rate (I think the VESA
        says 60 at 1024x768 NI).

        The factory def. setting is 72 at 620x480 and 800x600,
        60 at 1024x768.

        Of course, you can go lower (it provides 4 diff. set-ups).

        With my NEC3FGX - it's multi-sync algorithm from the
        manual says, with 72 refresh rates it automatically
        uses 800x600 setup not 1024x768 .. sigh..;
        but I'm not brave enough to test this (setting the
        dip switch of V.Card to use 70 at 1024x768, which
        will use dot clock of 75).

        About the perf., yes..it's much faster at least than
        tvga8900c 1meg.

        I haven't had time to run xbench yet.

        BTW, I think I heard the rumor about 90k xstone with S3,
        Is this real?  Were this done on comparable set-up to Sun
        such as at least 1024x768?

Regards,
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>    BTW, I think I heard the rumor about 90k xstone with S3,
>    Is this real?  Were this done on comparable set-up to Sun
>    such as at least 1024x768?

        ***The answer is yes.****

The question that we trying to answer is how much faster is XS3 is
going to be over the Sun workstations.

Thomas Roell's X server for the S3 928 (ISA card)  generates 136k stones.
So this gives a good clue of at least how fast we can be.

It will not suprise me to hear in the near future:
is the latest version of the sun workstation faster than the XS3?

Enjoy,
        Amancio

P.S: someone send me e-mail asking me for a fast S3 card not blazingly fast but
just as fast as a sun :-)

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