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From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
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On Friday 14 June 2002 05:58 pm, eric@hollar.com wrote:

> But what video card should I choose? The list of cards provided at the
> XFree86 site doesn't have many that are too up to date (or even still
> available new). Is AGP supported? The themes at
> http://themes.freshmeat.net/ all look fantastic, and I want my new box to
> play in that realm. What are these guys using? Any tips would be greatly
> appreciated.

I've got a Matrox G450+ at home and an ATI Rage128 Pro at work. They both work 
great. Both are AGP and both have DRI working. I'm using XFree86-4.2.

Stay away from NVidia. 'Nuff said.

David

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