From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA25269 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:53:15 -0700 Received: from cln.etc.bc.ca (utpfqt@24.65.187.169.bc.wave.home.com [24.65.187.169]) by learn.etc.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA13710 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:53:09 -0800 (PST) Sender: sshack@learn.etc.bc.ca Message-ID: <38BDE5DD.CCF2CD87@cln.etc.bc.ca> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:54:05 -0800 From: Steve Shack MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Performance References: <200003011418.JAA20165@lucifier.dial-up.user.akula.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Michael Shalayeff wrote: > Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from T. Martin: > > Hello, > > I know this is off topic for the kernel but I'd like to say a little. > > > > I have a 715/50 and it's been churning along with HP-UX 9.0 (not Y2K so > > HP says) It's been running setiathome as is a P166 Intel and I'm actually > > impressed by the math power of that 50mhz chip it outpermes the P166 about > > 3% . > > Just thought a few would like to know. > > > > One other thing I got a 715/75 and it's framebuffer is not 1024x768 as is > > the 715/50 any suggestions as to what it might be. > 1280x1024 (; > or maybe just some other vsync freq? > cu Some of the puffins helped me out on this when I first got my 712. If you press tab while booting up it will cycle through the videomodes. It might not work on a 715 i'm not sure. But if it does cycle through untill you find a usable videomode. (many were there but very fuzzy, in the end 1024x768 was the ONLY one that worked even half way decent.)