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[Rant] Things to be cleared up about MediatorPCIANN.lu
Posted on 26-Jul-2000 13:13 GMT by Rafo9 comments
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I preordered a MediatorPCI busboard and I think some infos are missing, or not clear enough. Graphics drivers. I remember I saw either here or on CSAM that Elbox already had video drivers working for the MediatorPCI, Voodoo3 being one of them. I also read about P96 drivers. But now, There may be CyberGraphX drivers for video boards on the Mediator PCI. As there is no official info about it on the Picasso96 website, I was wondering : Are there actually Picasso96 drivers for any PCI board yet ? If not, we may wait for some time to get a Voodoo3 board working now, 'cause we won't get any performance compared to Permedia2 with some S3 Virge stuff, and it will take some time to get any Voodoo3 driver if nothing in this direction has been done yet. Where to get any information about all this ? I'm getting a little worried now, as my impression is I won't be able to run much stuff on that busboard for some time if we have to wait CGX drivers for high-speed GFX boards. Something else : Picasso96 has a nice advantage over CGX : its modularity. P96 works with .card and .chip files. Then, if we have, for example a driver for a Maxi Cougar (TNTĀ² Based) with working drivers for P96, we have a .chip and .card file working. Then If we want to make a drivers for a Creative Labs' 3DBlaster TNTĀ², then only the .card file would need to be re-written, so I guess drivers for Picasso96 would be much faster to come, wouldn't they ?
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