From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 6:13:14 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 5451037B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:13:09 -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 XAA19492; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:17:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <023e01c03906$187d8480$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Joseph E. Royce" Cc: References: <022d01c038fe$58d533f0$837e03cb@dougy> <20001018080507.A13581@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> Subject: Re: Videocard query Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:19:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thanks Joseph I've used those with very satisfactory results in both Win2000 & Solaris, but never yet in FreeBSD / XF86, so sounds like thats something to try. I've just been messing around with some old PCI Cirrus Logic things but they are proving to be more trouble than they are worth !!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Videocard query > 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