From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 14: 8:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B74237B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dougy (dougy.apana.org.au [203.3.126.131]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA21083; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:12:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <000b01c03948$7d25ed40$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Videocard query Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:14:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Rick ..... I've had very good results with those in Solaris & Win2000 .... certainly good value things and nice to know they work in this situation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hamell" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Videocard query > > 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