From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 6:33: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE7E37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07800 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:32:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10360 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2MOAX00.RYT; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: <39EDA69D.D8F54D90@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:33:17 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: noelt@pworld.net.ph, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Videocard query References: <200010181316.VAA13788@prinsipe.pworld.net.ph> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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. Just because Matrox sells expensive cards (G400 Max) doesn't mean you have to buy one. You can get old G200s for ~$40 new and less used. Of course this is overkill for 800x600x16, you might want to look around used computer stores (or Ebay) for 486 era cards you can get for nearly free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message