From: Brandon Black photon@nol.net
Subject: [9fans] 1600x1200x8
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 21:54:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970820025423.fENPH2JDqUOeOv6fRrOXIBNmrNz9yhPxoB7lZE5jA-M@z> (raw)
I bet you can still find the 9FX Motion 771. I just bought mine around
March or so at CompUSA or some other generic place like that. They're
really nice cards all in all...
Brandon
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Which video card has been proved with 1600x1200x8
> monitors?
>
> The following PCI cards should be in the aux/vga you have, they all use the
> IBM RGB524 RAMDAC
> STB Velocity 64 Video
> #9FX Motion 771
> Stealth 64 Video 3000
> as is the VLB card
> #9GXE Level-16
> Unfortunately, it's not likely any of these are made any more.
>
> I recently did support for cards with the S3 ViRGE series chips. Anything with
> a ViRGE/VX will do 1600x1200x8, such as the
> Diamond Stealth 3D 3000
> STB Velocity 3D
> I have a Viewsonic P815 monitor which will do 1800x1440x8 and these cards should be
> able to do that too, but there's some wraparound problem if you take them over 1600x1200
> which I don't understand (unless the chips just don't allow it).
>
> I suppose I could do a boddle for the current aux/vga, but I've no way to test
> operation on Plan9 or many of the older cards at all.
>
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1997-08-20 2:54 Brandon [this message]
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1997-08-19 4:17 jmk
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