From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 14:18:57 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 8C00D37B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:18:49 -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 HAA00182; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:23:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <001c01c03949$fbeb46b0$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <14829.59552.930931.923116@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Videocard query Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:25:44 +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 Mike ...... I've had very good results from ATI Rage Pro (AGP) cards in Solaris & Win2000 so its good to know they work in X as well. I've been trying to get some older Cirrus Logic (PCI) ones sorted out but finding them more trouble than they are worth .... looks like the chipsets aren't properly supported even though they are in the XFree list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:14 AM Subject: Re: Videocard query > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message