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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on VGA?
Message-ID: <1925@fai.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 18:17:22 GMT
References: <37960@oliveb.olivetti.com> <1709@ssc.UUCP> <4302@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <1709@ssc.UUCP>, fyl@ssc (Phil Hughes) writes:
>I haven't seen it run but Everex claims their X (X11 R3 which comes with
>ENIX, their 5.3.2 port for the 386) works with both EGA and VGA.

Just a note:  Everex was at the recent Uniforum in San Francisco, and
the Enix they displayed there was X11 R2, not R3.  The salescreature
said they might have R3 in a few months.

On a 16 Mhz 386, Everex's current X-windows product is too slow to be
usable.  I understand release 2 had some speed problems.

Be very careful when buying X-windows for the PC.  I made it a point
to find out exactly what version of X a given vendor was selling at
Uniforum, and most were release 2 or earlier.  (Bell Tech was selling
X10.4!)

Even if a vendor has announced release 3, find out if they're actually
selling it, and find out what hardware/software combination you need
(including VGA adaptor *and* Ethernet adaptor) to make it work.  Also
remember, there's a lot of "extended" VGAs out there, and they all
seem to be extended in different directions.  If a version of X supports
extended VGA, you need to know which one.


				Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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