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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: S3 Info Wanted
- Keywords: s3 Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.145740.7660@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 14:57:40 GMT
- References: <1gosmoINN4hh@faatcrl.Faa.Gov>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Lines: 31
- Originator: jon@diomedes.robots
-
- In article <1gosmoINN4hh@faatcrl.Faa.Gov> warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton) writes:
- >I am going to put together a 486 class machine and naturally I want to
- >run linux on it. I'd like to go Local Bus and have seen that ACTIX
- >makes one. My Questions:
- >
- >1. What is the differences between the different S3 chips. Here's ones
- >I've seen in the Actix product line.
- >
- > s3 P86c805 Actix Graphic Engine 32VL (local bus)
- > s3 P86c801 Actix Graphic Engine 32 (isa)
- > s3 P86c911 Plain Jane 911
- > s3 P86c911a Actix Graphic Engine 1280 TC (isa)
- > s3 P86c924 Actix Graphic Engine VGA(isa)
- >
- >
- >2. And which can we expect to see supported by Linux?
-
-
- All work now with linux, the original development was done on an Acitix s3
- P86c911, but Actix did a swap for a s3 P86c801 which I now use. the 801/805
- will be by far the fastest they also support 2MB of video ram, so when the
- support is added will be able to make use of a bigger cache and possibly
- larger screen resolutions. I've had one report of problems with a 805 local
- bus card, but I don't know if this was a one off. If you buy an Actix card,
- the company is being very helpfull and I'd expect that any problems can be
- sorted out. Actix will be releaseing a 928 based card early next year, this
- should be much faster than even the 801 based cards.
-
- --
- Jon <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
- I'm not playing with my computer, I'm working!
-