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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: XFree support for ATI Ultra Pro?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.030122.634@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov19.193044.26421@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <By1BMt.HI2@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:01:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.193044.26421@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
- >In article <BxyysH.B66@ns1.nodak.edu> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) writes:
- >>
- >> The XFree FAQ says that the ATI Ultra (8514a) card is *not* supported
- >> in XFree86 yet I am certain that I have seen references to it by
- >> people who are successfully using it (Gateway machines). Can anyone
- >> confirm or deny this?
- >>
- >> Thanks!
- >> --
- >> Johannes Grosen
- >> ISC System Administrator
- >> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
- >
- >XFree86 does NOT support ATI Ultra (i.e. 8514) or S3. There are people
- >working on X servers for those boards, under 386BSD and Linux. But this
- >work is not part of XFree86; in fact, it's not even based on XFree86 (they
- >started with the stock X11R5 ports to those OSs). Someone may wind up
- >porting those to XFree86, but we are not working on it ourselves.
- >
- >--
- >David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871
- >AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421, Middletown, NJ 07748
- >
- >"The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt
- > other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton
-
- I am one those people working on S3, 8514/a, and ATI Ultra under 386bsd.
- XBSD8514 works with 8514/a and ATI Ultra in 8514/a mode. So far
- under 386bsd there has been no problems reported with the 8514/a server,
- except for a minor bug of the mouse buttons being switched.
- However my support is limited for the 8514/a because I don't own
- an 8514/a card nor an ATI Ultra card. The reason why it works is
- because my first realse of XS3 was very similar to the 8514/a
- server.
-
- XS3 is a server based on the 8514/a server but modified to work with
- S3's chipset 911/924. XS3 supports the hardware cursor available on
- the S3 chipsets. The server works on all S3 cards which use a
- non- programmable clock synthetizers. Known major brand cards known
- to work with XS3 are: Orchid Farenheit 1280, Actix GraphicEngine and
- STB Wind/X. Known window managers to work with XS3 are Motif,
- olwm, gwm, and twm. Additionally, all XFree86 clients work with
- XS3.
-
- The reason that I started from the stock X11R5 is that most of the
- XFree86 work is related to supporting non-accelarated graphic cards
- such as the et4000. Since I use hardware implemented bitblt,
- line, rectangle and fill functionality, the vga speed-ups were
- not needed. The latest released XS3 server is about 6 times faster
- than XFree86 and about twice as fast as Sun Workstation IPC
- without a GX.
-
- Currently, I am working on supporting S3's 801 chipset which has
- an overall performance improvement of %50. When I am done we
- should have a 60k+ xstones server, and that is a conservative
- figure.
-
- XS3 and the 8514/a servers are also available for Linux.
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- Binaries and patches for all mentioned servers are available
- at sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming.
-
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- Enjoy,
- Amancio Hasty
- Home: 415-595-3046
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