Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:05:07 -0500 From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> To: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Videocard query Message-ID: <20001018080507.A13581@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <022d01c038fe$58d533f0$837e03cb@dougy>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:23:39PM %2B1000 References: <022d01c038fe$58d533f0$837e03cb@dougy>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:23:39PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > I'd appreciate comments from X users as to what videocards work >well with XF86Config. I run a > 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 > 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 > exactly what fairly basic cards do give good results. > > > > The ATI cards based on the Rage Pro chip work fairly well. They have been supported by XFree86 for a while now too. HTH -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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