From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 7: 1:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B022937B657 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2MPMJ00.V0M; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:01:31 -0500 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: "Doug Young" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <33970833a8fe.33a8fe339708@marquette.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:01:31 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: Videocard query X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been able to pick up slightly older model ATI cards which when used in conjunction with newer versions of XFree86 provide acceleration. I recently picked up a Xpert98 8mb PCI card online for 20 bucks + it had a 25 dollar rebate. (getting paid to buy something, good concept) I've had good experiences with ATI cards and FreeBSD in general. Good Hunting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:23 am Subject: Videocard query > 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message