Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:46:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com Subject: Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE? Message-ID: <200103100146.f2A1kuE40089@earth.backplane.com> References: <1083.984171755@puss.pfcs.com>
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:I know I'd like a choice - I have several machines that have video cards
:that are unsupported by XFree86 4.x .
:
:Then again, I guess I could always go out and re-buy the video cards.
:Unfortunately, the ones I have are good/expensive cards (at least they
:were).
:
:H
Good workstation quality video cards have gotten really cheap.
A Voodoo3 3000 (PCI) is less then $60, and that can handle just about
any resolution at 24bpp. It's supported very nicely under XFree3.x and
XFree4.x (I've been running XFree4.x for several months now without
a hitch), and the 2D accel is well supported so knocking large
netscape windows around works without breaking a sweat, even on less
then stellar PC hardware. We bought a bunch of really cheap
bottom-of-the-line HP desktops, plugged in some extra memory and
added a Voodoo3 3000, and they work great as FreeBSD workstations.
-Matt
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