From: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk Subject: Re: X drivers for generic vga Date: 23 Jun 1993 21:59:43 GMT
In article <209ek7$83o@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
>Laszlo Herczeg (laszlo.herczeg@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org) wrote:
>
>: Why is it that only people who can afford to buy overpriced ATI Ultra
>: and other fancy cards can run X in 256 colors?
>
>l.o.
>
>: I know, I know: there is an Xega driver as well, but why shoulg I dish out
>: 400-500 bucks just to be able to get X under 256 colors?
>
>l.o.
I have got an ET4000 card which cost me somewhere round $100 and I've got X
running in 1024x768 256 colours, no problems whatsoever!
It's also faster than a monochrom Sun3/50 :-)