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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: Trident VGA card
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 09:36:35 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.093635.27041@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
In-Reply-To: dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU's message of 16 Mar 91 02:59:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.025919.19599@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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>Does anyone have any information or experience with a Trident 1MB vga card?

It's a nice and speedy thing. Almost no problems with any kind of hardware I
tried.

>In particular, is it compatible with any of the chipsets supported by
>Roell's X386 server?  These seem to be one of the most readily available

No, definitely not. Perhaps this board will be supported in a coming release,
but it will still be MUCH slower than an ET4000 board. The reason is the
braindamaged memory-management on TVGA8900 chip.

- Thomas
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