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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:16:10 +0800 (PHT)
From:      noelt@pworld.net.ph
To:        joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Videocard query
Message-ID:  <200010181316.VAA13788@prinsipe.pworld.net.ph>

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Hi!

Check out s3 video cards, they do not have any problems with X. 

noelt.

You wrote:

> From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
> To: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:05:07 -0500
> 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
> 
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