From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 17:03:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15023 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-7.mail.demon.net (relay-7.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA15018 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by relay-5.mail.demon.net id aa0507187; 19 Apr 97 0:25 BST From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card Q References: <199704172336.QAA15074@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:03:07 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: > Hey folks, > I'm trying to put together a new zoomy P6-based system, and I want a > good video card...and I'm at a loss for what's better than what. Since > I want 24-bit color I'll probably be running the XiG server, so absolute > solid XFree86 drivers aren't necessarily of great importance... > Any advice on what a good card would be? Right now I'm trying to decide > between the #9FX 772 and the #9FX 771 cards. The obvious difference > seems to be one supports "interlaced" and the other supports "sync on > green". One uses the S3 Virge/VX chip and the other...S3 Vision968. > Any good advice out there? I don't know about the #9FX cards, but I've been told (by Xi) that the fastest card using the Xi server is the Matrox Millenium. I think the Matrox Millenium PowerDoc also works with the same server, although you'd better check first with Xi (as it's just a Millenium with a faster DAC.) I'm currently using a S3 Vision968/2M VRAM card (Miro Crystal) and it's fairly fast, but nowhere near as fast as a Millenium, comparing my Xstone numbers to Xi's advertised ones. -- Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk