From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 15 2:40: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web13607.mail.yahoo.com (web13607.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B466837B438 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020615093957.49215.qmail@web13607.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.225.219.108] by web13607.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:39:57 PDT Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Video card hardware for FreeBSD To: eric@hollar.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020614175849.26259.h009.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- eric@hollar.com wrote: > But what video card should I choose? A cheap ATI Xpert (both 98 and 2000 lines) will do well. Probaly, ultimate in compatibility with various OSes would be Matrox G400. it's discontinued, so you can get a fair price. For me "good" means if it works with crappy Xsun in Solaris x86. All of the above do well. XFree86 4+ supports newer and more powerful Radeons and GeForces, but beware the absolutely latest and greates ones. G400 works with quite a few funny ones: Be, QNX, Darwin.. (nVidia is notorious for making driver developers' work hard). Your Pentium 199 is quite capable for most tasks excluding professional graphics/video work. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message