From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 5:17:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B9337B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dougy (dougy.apana.org.au [203.3.126.131]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19288 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:22:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <022d01c038fe$58d533f0$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: Videocard query Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:23:39 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0226_01C03952.10C43710" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0226_01C03952.10C43710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'd appreciate comments from X users as to what videocards work well = with XF86Config. I run a=20 heap of CLI gateway / webserver / mailserver boxes, but occasionally = have a use for GUI stuff as well. What I'm looking for are reasonably priced (ie not those horribly = overpriced Matrox things) PCI or=20 AGP videocards that allow something like 16 bit 800x600 resolution or = better & which are straightforward to configure. I know to avoid rubbish like SiS which rarely work well = even in Windows but I have no idea=20 exactly what fairly basic cards do give good results. ------=_NextPart_000_0226_01C03952.10C43710 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'd appreciate comments from X users as = to what=20 videocards work well with XF86Config. I run a

heap of CLI gateway / webserver / = mailserver boxes,=20 but occasionally have a use for GUI stuff as well.

What I'm looking for are = reasonably priced (ie=20 not those horribly overpriced Matrox things) PCI or

AGP videocards that allow something = like 16 bit=20 800x600 resolution or better & = which are straightforward

to configure. I know=20 to avoid rubbish like SiS which = rarely work well=20 even in Windows but I have no idea =

exactly what fairly=20 basic cards do give good = results.

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