Re: Second Sight SVGA Board Info (text only)

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Lim Thye Chean (ltchean@iss.nus.sg) wrote:
: Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@netcom.com) wrote:
: : Q. How much video memory can the Second Sight support?
: : A. 1MB (megabyte). The card comes standard with 512K, enough to support 
: :    up to 800x600x256 resolution.

: Max resolution supported only at 1024x768x256, which is only 768K. 256K
: wasted for 1MB configuration?

So this means we can't have 4 MB? It would be nice to have 4 MB of VRAM.
Part of it would be used as actual video display.  The rest would be for
caching video stuff so we could just blit at 20 mhz instead of DMA at
1 mhz.

Joseph
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