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- From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Best Video Card ??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.195151.9651@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 19:51:51 +1200
- References: <1992Jul16.124348.12953@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul24.203140.11242@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Jul24.203140.11242@sinkhole.unf.edu>, shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul19.172853.26003@highlite.uucp> yarvin@highlite.uucp (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul17.021536.29502@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- >>>
- >>>I would suggest looking at the clock speeds when looking for a new
- >>>card for X. By my calculations, I would need * OVER 100 * to get
- >>>an acceptable refresh rate at 1176x882 noninterlaced!
- >>
- >>Yes... and, no. I'm running X at 1152x900 with a 65Mhz clock, and have
- >>no problem with flicker. The magic? Dark backgrounds. If you're not
- >>silly enough to window in black-text-on-white-screen, your flickering
- >>worries will be over.
- >>
- >>Try green2 on DarkSlateBlue.
- >>
- >>c
- >
- > Will this still have an effect on your eyes from prolonged use (4+
- > hour stretches) though even though you do not perceive a problem?
- > Most of the good et4000 cards have a high dot clock of 80. Hmm, can
- > the S3 (namely, the Diamond Stealth) be programmed to emit a dot clock
- > to at least 100Mhz? This would make 1152x900 adequate (according to
- > Satish's xclk program).
- >
- > There is a PD (well, freely available, whatever) S3 project in the works.
-
- Whos doing this? And are the specs they are working from (FOr the S3 card)
- avalable freely?
-
- > Hopefully, we'll all have a nice Christmas present. ;-) If the S3 can
- > drive the better 17" monitors without flicker and without moire' problems
- > (brought on also by too low a dot clock), then with it's added speed
- > advantages over the et4000, it will be the ideal card to use for X386.
- > Also, by the Fall, the price will hopefully drop below $200.
- >
- > Steve Hite
- > shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
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- | Hamish Marson <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz> OS/2 |
- | Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
- | University of Waikato, |
- | Hamilton, New Zealand. |
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