From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdLs0-0006uN-30 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:06:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAJ65DjH000338; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:05:13 GMT Received: from popmail.jettissystems.com (popmail.jettissystems.com [38.118.146.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAJ5vEeX004666 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:57:15 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.104] (unknown [69.17.21.212]) by popmail.jettissystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381EB56F1D8 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:57:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <437EBEB8.2030902@badapple.net> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:57:12 -0600 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption References: <7bef1f890511160250g5eb2d183ge5716e1d6d41a7c6@mail.gmail.com> <20051116175214.06a925c4@chi.speakeasy.net> <7bef1f890511170656x6977f2d3wd61ecd63d757abb3@mail.gmail.com> <20051119053619.GA18358@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20051119053619.GA18358@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e08f274-a854-4ee6-aa56-3a8929aee964 X-Archives-Hash: 3da3f80c0c4ee22bff89a4c8ef7db101 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list