From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 9 17:47:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12F637B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f2A1kuE40089; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:46:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200103100146.f2A1kuE40089@earth.backplane.com> To: Harlan Stenn Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Jordan Hubbard , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com Subject: Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE? References: <1083.984171755@puss.pfcs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message