From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 27 18:04:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17843 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17834 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-120.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.120]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA14123; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:04:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA57238; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:16:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901280116.TAA57238@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: The Hermit Hacker cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: What Video card to buy... In-reply-to: Message from The Hermit Hacker of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:12:39 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:16:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Hermit Hacker writes: > > Video Card is the hard one...*whom* is considered good no awayadays? :( > To many brands, and sub brands, out there now... The other day I discovered a local PC shop had a pile of used Matrox Millenium II 4MB PCI cards for $45. Already had an 8MB Mill II but I couldn't resist buying another. If only I had a spare PCI slot... Maybe the 2nd SCSI card can come out... Haven't hardly bothered to benchmark my Mill II. Its much better than the 2MB ATI Mach32 card that came out, as the Mach32 could hang the system with heavy video (ie: Netscape) plus heavy SCSI activity (ie: cvs). Always figured there was a PCI wait state or something that could "cure" that problem but didn't really care to shoot for the correct BIOS settings until it worked. Often took several days to reproduce the problem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message