From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 21:50:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4503837B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:50:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA47793 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:14:38 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.0) id eA25oYu27875 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:50:34 +0300 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:50:34 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xfree86 video cards Message-ID: <20001102085034.D27545@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from william@hq.newdream.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:52:25PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:52:25PM -0800, William Yardley wrote: > i was just wondering what currently available (preferably easily) cards > work really well for xfree86 - my scratch box currently has a Mach64 > winboost which doesn't provide a lot of colors at high screen resolutions. I recommend any Matrox card you can buy :-) For example, I use Matrox Millenium II (old PCI card with good 2D performance) You can buy MAtrox G200 or G400. from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.MGA: Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message