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Re: Linux New hardware competability




Xfree86 3.3 RELNOTES file:

3.8  SVGA server

   o A new general graphics acceleration interface (XFree86 Acceleration
Archi-
     tecture - XAA) has been implemented.  It is used to provide
relatively
     complete acceleration, at different colour depths, for several chips
in
     the SVGA server.  Chips currently making use of this include the
Matrox
     Millennium, Mystique, Tseng ET4000/W32p and ET6000, and several chips
from
     ARK Logic, Chips and Technologies, Cirrus, Trident, SiS and the S3
ViRGE
     family.



And this:

   o On the other hand, the ET6000 driver in the SVGA server, which
already
     existed in XFree86 3.2 for all color depths, is now fully accelerated
for
     all those color depths. It builds upon the new XAA architecture,
which is
     the cornerstone of a new acceleration framework within the XFree86
     servers. It is responsible for the outstanding acceleration
performance of
     this release.

Regards,
Nir.

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Ariel Biener wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Eddie Harari wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi , 
> > > 
> > > I got a new computer so I can speed up some things , but I want
> > > to know how would linux behave with his new workers !
> > > 
> > > 1. P-200MHZ - This should be no problem.
> > > 2. 128MB    - No problem.
> > > 3. TSENG 6000 4.5 MB - anyone ???
> > 
> > I use Tseng et6000 2M and it supported OK by XFree86 in SVGA server
> 
> 
> Which of course means no acceleration support, no 16/24/32 bit support,
> and just make it work like a fast Trident card, which is probably not what
> was desired here.
> 
> --Ariel
> 
> > 
> > > 4. CREATIVE CD - IDE normal support.
> > > 5. SB 64 - is there a driver for that ???
> > > 6. IDE DISK - 4.5 giga - should not be a problem .
> > > 7. VIDEO CAM - any support ???
> > >   
> > >  I know some of these devices are new , can anyone tell me 
> > >  if I should pray fordrivers or they allready exist???
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Eddie Harari  - phone: 972-3-6190999
> > >               fax  : 972-3-6190992
> > >               ___________________
> > >               Take A Walk In The Wild Side ...
> > > 
> > 
> >   Alexander Indenbaum
> >   baum@actcom.co.il
> >   FreeBSD - Unix for PCs
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/ 
> > 
> > 
> 
>  +---------------------------------------------------------+
>  | Ariel Biener                                            |
>  | e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il        Work ph: 03-6406086 |
>  +---------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 

--
Nir Soffer AKA ScorpioS. scorpios@cs.huji.ac.il
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~scorpios/
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