From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) Subject: Are S3 cards ET4000 compatible enough to run X11? Date: 1 Sep 1992 10:58:31 GMT
I am considering buying a VGA card to run X11 under Linux. However the
shop tells me that they are out of ET4000 cards, but are willing to sell
me a more expensive S3 card. They say that the card is compatible with
ET4000. Should I expect it to work?
I don't beleive the guy when he said that this card supports a mode
with 32000 colors out of a palette of 1.6 milion. 1) the number is 16
milion. and 2) isn't 32K * 3 bytes of FAST table lookup memory very
expensive?
Roger
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