Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:33:17 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: noelt@pworld.net.ph, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Videocard query Message-ID: <39EDA69D.D8F54D90@mitre.org> References: <200010181316.VAA13788@prinsipe.pworld.net.ph>
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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. 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
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