From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 11:15: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15C0E37B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15017 invoked by uid 100); 18 Oct 2000 18:14:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14829.59552.930931.923116@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:14:56 -0500 (CDT) To: "Doug Young" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Videocard query In-Reply-To: <33218766@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young writes: > 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. Others have mentioned the ATI cards - but always the older ones. ATI likes to swap chips around, so that one "ATI WonderFoo" board may not have the same chipset as the "ATI WonderFoo" sitting next to it. On the other hand, ATI does tend to use the same chipset across a range of boards, so the that first "WonderFoo", a "RageFoo" and "FooPro" will all work equally well using the same drivers. My gut reaction is that any older brand name video card should work well without being overly expensive. The name means it should have been popular, so the bugs should have been ironed out by now. Older makes that more likely, as well as dropping the cost.