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RE: Matrox Mystique 220




On 30-Aug-97 Ariel Biener wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>
>   If any of you has run into problems with the new Matrox Mystique 220Mhz
>card (4MB), the I'd like to know how you overcame them. I am speaking of
>the following issues:
>
>
>1st of all, the machine is a MMX200 Pentium based PC, Shuttle 565-TX(512kb
>cache), 64MB EDO memory. The XFree running is XFree86 3.3.1, and the
>server used is the XF86_SVGA server. 

Very close to my Machine, but I have the Millennium 4M.

>
>Problems:
>
>1). 24bit display at 1280x1024 is incorrect at times, for example,
>netscape icons (on the netscape buttons) are showing up b/w, not color,
>and same goes for the netscape logo(which you can press on to go to
>home.netscape.com). 16bit displays them correctly.


Same here.

>
>2). Using 16bit, or 24bit, I can't go from X mode back to the vc's, it
>corrupts the screen, and the only think I am left with is goin back to the
>X vc. (vc = virtual console).

I can go from X mode to the vc's but since I use a PS/2 mouse, it's sometime
said something about can't open mouse when I go back to X and then it drop's dea
d
. 

>
>3). Using AccelX 3.1, it doesn't manage to initialize the screen
>correctly, leaving it blank(black), and only killing the X server and
>running the XFree86 one defreezes the display.
>
>That is about it for now, info will be appreciated.
>
>
>--Ariel
>
>   +---------------------------------------------------------+
>   | Ariel Biener                                            |
>   | e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il        Work ph: 03-6406086 |
>   +---------------------------------------------------------+

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Date: 31-Aug-97
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