From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 13:37:57 -0400
Message-Id: <9306081737.AA24045@hodge>
To: sipb-minutes@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: svalente@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: gsstark@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 7 Jun 93 20:53:12 -0400 <9306080053.AA14761@hodge>
Subject: The gavel is not a fly-swatter


  yandros: keesh has a splufty new 400$ video card that is useless for a
	  new vaporware Xserver.

Since I said I'd go into the details later...

The new video card has a nice accelerator which is not yet supported
in the `standard' X server (vers 1.2), but which instead works with a
special server that's based on vers. 1.1 of the `standard' server.
Sal says of this card/server combination, approximately: ``not so
great in speed, very nice in display quality, missing in server
features that we really like (like switching virtual consoles!)''.
Unfortunately, this card/server doesn't work with our current serial
mouse.  This is ok, since the card comes with a bus mouse, except that
even though the kernel we have now says that it supports the bus
mouse, it doesn't seem to actually work.  

The good news is that the next version of the server (2.0) should fix
these problems, and support the accelerator, making the world a happy
place.  (``All your problems will be fixed in the next release'' type
stuff) The bad news is that we're not really sure when this server
will be released.  Right now, it seems that our best bet is just to
keep the card and wait for the server, since our choice of cards is
not liekly to change in the near future, as far as I know, and we'd
rather have it on last year's budget anyway.  In short, we have a
splefty card which we'll be able to use sometime in the future, but
not now, unfrotunately.

Is this about right, Sal?