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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
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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


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