Subject: Re: NeoMagic Laptops
To: None <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Lars-Johan Liman <liman@sunet.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/25/1998 16:57:29
danw@MIT.EDU:
> They don't support it, but it works just fine with COMPAT_FREEBSD.
> (You'll need to hack the Install script to get it past the fact that
> it doesn't recognize `uname` but after that it all just works.)

Yes, it works OK - but not great. I use it on my IBM Thinkpad 560X
(OK, OK, it's not on their "supported" list. :-) with the patch from
their FTP-server for the NeoMagic 2160 chip. When I try to set it up
for a desktop that's bigger (1024 x 768) than the actual screen size
(800 x 600), and do, e.g., a "cat bigfile.txt", the pixels in the
xterm window don't stick to the right text line. It looks like the Y
coordinate gets shifted randomly a few pixels now and then, and it
happens only when the output is fast. A program that write line by
line in a comfortable pace is no problem.

Has anyone seen this and dug further?

				Cheers,
				  /Liman
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