From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:57:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437EBEB8.2030902@badapple.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051119053619.GA18358@waltdnes.org>
Walter Dnes wrote:
> 2) You mentioned it was an ancient card. How much RAM does it have?
> Under X, here are the RAM requirements...
> 8 bit colour (256 colours) => 1 byte per pixel
> 16 bit colour (65536 colours) => 2 bytes per pixel
> 24 bit colour (16777216 colours) = 4 (yes, *FOUR*) bytes per pixel.
> A 1-megabyte video card will give 1152 x 864 at 256 colours or 800 x 600
> at 65536 colours.
>
The Mystique has 4mb of RAM upgradeable to 8mb IIRC. It was likely new
in '95-'96 as I scraped together $140 to by the slightly better Matrox
Millennium used off Ebay in '96. The Mystique did not do well at higher
resolutions, which is why I went with the Millennium. I'd shoot for
800x600 and go from there.
kashani
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-16 10:50 [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption Alan E. Davis
2005-11-17 1:52 ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-17 14:56 ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-18 2:49 ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-18 3:11 ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-18 4:54 ` Bob Sanders
2005-11-19 5:36 ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-19 5:57 ` kashani [this message]
2005-11-20 3:45 ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-20 14:02 ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-25 0:29 ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-25 0:32 ` Alan E. Davis
2005-11-19 15:46 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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