[SuSE Linux] Permedia 2 Video
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky. Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance. -=|JP|=- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
Jon Pennington wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance.
I'm using a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Exxtreme with a Permedia 2 chip and 4 Megs. It seems to work well except that 24 bit color is messed up (32 is fine though). I think the xserver for it is now part of the standard distribution with SuSE. David Bellows -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
On 3 May 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
I have Suse 5.3 running with an AccelGraphics Permedia 2 card. It works
quite well at 32bit color depth, but I have had problems with it at lesser
depths. This is in a Gateway PII-300 system that came with an
AccelGraphics card well before they were supported by XFree. I like it
well enough that I just bought another AccelGraphics Permedia 2 card from
CompGeeks for $40 - a great price. Unfortunately when I tried it out
tonight in my home system it wouldn't even boot (one long, three short
beeps). I haven't used this motherboard with an AGP card before, so the
motherboard may be the problem.
Mark
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance.
A shot in the dark is a very good description of your chances for getting the Permedia2 to work... I never got my Permedia2 to do better than 640x480 (16 colors), which was totally useless with the standard configuration of the windowmanagers (There was NO other way to shut down X than the 3-finger grip and most windows were larger than the screen) Of course it is possible to configure the WMs to be usable at 640x480, but remember, I was (and still am) a newbie, more or less. This specific card was, however, acting weirdly in DOS as well. Many older DOS games could not be convinced that it was SVGA- capable or VESA-compatible... even with display-doctor. I finally replaced the 8MB Permedia2 card with a 4MB S3 ViRGE/GX2 which is happily doing 1280x1024 in 16bit colors. The old DOS games work now, and in WingCommander5 in Win95 it gives better 3D performance and more options... If I were you, I'd go for something else...
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Actually, I've had the Permidia 2 working for quite a while at 1024x768. Works fine and true color is great. You have to set up the X server using xf86config and not SaX. Good Luck!! <p>Dave H <p>Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Mon, 3 May 1999, Jon Pennington wrote: <p>> <br>> Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? <br>> I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they <br>> were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention <br>> may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by <br>> Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I <br>> had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to <br>> my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is <br>> any more or less cranky. <br>> <br>> Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance. <p>A shot in the dark is a very good description of your <br>chances for getting the Permedia2 to work... <p>I never got my Permedia2 to do better than 640x480 (16 colors), <br>which was totally useless with the standard configuration of the <br>windowmanagers (There was NO other way to shut down X than <br>the 3-finger grip and most windows were larger than the screen) <p>Of course it is possible to configure the WMs to be usable <br>at 640x480, but remember, I was (and still am) a newbie, more <br>or less. <p>This specific card was, however, acting weirdly in DOS as well. <br>Many older DOS games could not be convinced that it was SVGA- <br>capable or VESA-compatible... even with display-doctor. <p>I finally replaced the 8MB Permedia2 card with a 4MB S3 ViRGE/GX2 <br>which is happily doing 1280x1024 in 16bit colors. The old DOS <br>games work now, and in WingCommander5 in Win95 it gives better <br>3D performance and more options... <p>If I were you, I'd go for something else... <p>> -=|JP|=- <br>> -- <br>> To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with <br>> this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e <br>> Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <a href="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</a">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the <br>> archive at <a href="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</a">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html <br>> <p>-- <br>To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with <br>this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e <br>Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <a href="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</a">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the <br>archive at <a href="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</a">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</blockquote> <pre>-- _ _| ~~. David Henderson \, _} DHenders@VT.Edu \( Gig 'em Aggies! '93 Currently at: Interdepartmental Genetics Program 2010 Litton Reaves Hall Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)231-4773 (540)231-5014 DHenders@VT.Edu <A HREF="http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html"><A HREF="http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html</A">http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html</pre> <PRE> begin:vcard n:Henderson;David tel;fax:(540)231-5014 tel;home:(540)381-8095 tel;work:(540)231-4773 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:<A HREF="http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html"><A HREF="http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html</A">http://www.dasc.vt.edu/henderson/dhenderson.html org:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;Interdepartmental Genetics Program version:2.1 email;internet:DAHende3@VT.Edu title:Graduate Student adr;quoted-printable:;;2010 Litton Reaves Hall=0D=0AVPI&SU;Blacksburg;VA;24061;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;-3424 fn:David Henderson end:vcard </PRE>
On Tue, 4 May 1999, David Henderson wrote:
Actually, I've had the Permidia 2 working for quite a while at 1024x768. Works fine and true color is great. You have to set up the X server using xf86config and not SaX. Good Luck!!
Dave H
It depends on the specific card... At least it did with the X-server included in SuSE 5.3. I tried EVERYTHING with no success whatsoever... 640x480 was the max I could get. Regards Ole Kofoed Hansen -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance.
A shot in the dark is a very good description of your chances for getting the Permedia2 to work...
The current drivers work very well, at least in 32bit color. Were you
using them? Without the proper drivers, included in current and recent
SuSE distributions, 640x480 at 16 colors is the best you could do and not
very useful. I know, I couldn't use my main office system with Linux for
six months because the drivers weren't available. Since they have been
available, SuSE has included them. I don't think SuSE would have included
them if they didn't work...
Mark
I have a sis 6326 , Cranky is right. I just baught a diamond V550 W 16 meg of ram , retail version(this has the s connector, the oem deosent have the s conctor) for $120.00 , the oem wo s con goes for 100.00. Weeks ago I tested the V550 to rule out the sis6326 , works great , fist time around , no pulling teeth from a hen. I plan on installing it this week and getting rid of the sis card. Any one want an sis 6326 card , Best offer wins ! At 06:08 PM 5/3/1999 -0700, you wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance.
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i have a diamond fire gl 1000 pro it's an 8mb agp permedia 2-based card in fact - that card is the reason i chose suse over every other distro suse 5.2 was the only one that had the x-server for my card at the time the permedia2 chipset is very nice - but a bit outdated now 3dlabs are releasing the permedia3 soon - so you might want to hang on for that Jon Pennington wrote:
Can anyone vouch for the ease-of-use factor with these cards? I've seen them for $60 US and under, and was wondering if they were worth the investment. Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that I started out with a Voodoo Banshee by Creative Labs and I have since moved back to an SiS6326 card I had laying around. The SiS is still fairly cranky, compared to my ol' reliable S3 ViRGE DX card, and I wonder if the Permedia is any more or less cranky.
Just a shot in the dark. I appreciate any assistance.
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