From: Jeremy Chatfield <xig@dircon.co.uk> Subject: COMMERCIAL: Accelerated-X supports new NeoMagic chipset, Toshiba Tecra 8000, Gateway Solo 5150, benchmarks. Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:54:21 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Xi Graphics is pleased to announce the release of support for the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV, also known as the NM2200 and the NM2360. This is much faster than previous NeoMagic chipsets as the new benchmarks show. The initial machines explicitly supported are the Toshiba Tecra 800 and the Gateway Solo 5150. Resolution -> 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 Depth -> 8bpp 16bpp 24bpp Xmark -> Server Xaccel 16 14 11 XFCom_NeoMagic 13 11 2 Notes: Benchmark tests were conducted on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a Pentium II/266 Mhz processor, making the results broadly comparable with those for the ATI Rage LT Pro announced in August. The Accelerated-X Server, Xaccel, passes the X Test Suite with hardware acceleration in all color depths. The XFCom_NeoMagic server fails the X Test Suite particularly with font handling; the failures are in some cases quite visible. For example in 24bpp, Netscape Navigator icons are black when using the XFCom_NeoMagic Server. The benchmark speed of "2" for the XFCom_NeoMagic Server in 24bpp is not a typo. The results were reproduced because we couldn't believe them the first time. Source code is not available under any conditions for XFCom_NeoMagic. XFree86 Servers from any source are covered at best by the MIT license which specifically includes commercial usage and are not, despite hyperbole to the contracy, subject to the use of the Open Source trade mark. The NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV chip does support hardware gamma color correction but does not support overlays. Hot key switching between internal and external displays with different display characteristics is supported by Accelerated-X, except on Toshiba systems. Velvet Mouse is supported for a faster and smoother user interface in all color depths. Hardware cursor is supported and used by default. The update for Accelerated-X 4.1.2 Laptop Display Server can be found at URL: ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/laptop/4.1.2/L4102.010.tar.gz and further details and instructions for installation can be found in the text file at URL: ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates/accelx/laptop/4.1.2/L4102.010.txt. The update may also be applied to the freely available Accelerated-X Laptop Display Server demo, available from URL ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/demos/LX412.Linux.tar.gz Cheers, JeremyC. - -- Jeremy Chatfield, Xi Graphics mailto:jdc@xig.com tel:+44(0)1234.710030 Commercial X Products: Servers, CDE, contracts and custom development http://www.xig.com ftp://ftp.xig.com/ mailto:majordomo@xig.com tel:+1.303.298.7478 fax:+1.303.298.1406 mailto:info@xig.com - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNiSC3VrUI/eHXJZ5AQHDdAP6A4aIQ6p82H39aNesAwHwK6aHYl+TcJA+ MvB933jLd36E30juxQRIYw4LSS6h/pBfGnGD540+ja7wyFhaOWRafUDwOE2nB0Go 9HlC1WZM2oNezxrwpjLvUXRpZlod7izPCnEE51bQQqLIYs7PD/kcxdn4b+sWsvi2 AJiyrE8e6u8= =C/fC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----