From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 7:29:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078A237B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CC45328F; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:52:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFB4328E; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:52:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:52:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Videocard query In-Reply-To: <022d01c038fe$58d533f0$837e03cb@dougy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use an ATI @ Play 98 with 8 megs for 16 bit 1024x7whatever... works just fine... you can pick them up for about $50 or so. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message