Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:33:18 -0600 (CST) From: John Preisler <john@vapornet.net> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? Message-ID: <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net> In-Reply-To: <199903301308.IAA27047@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> References: <199903301308.IAA27047@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
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One must match the software to supported hardware. For video cards, peruse the XFree86 list of supported cards. From what I gather the riva tnt is unsupported, or has immature support in xfree. Perhaps someone running one of these cards can say for sure. The riva tnt is the gamers' choice for windows, but very very little in XFree86-land uses the 3D accelleration. Personally I use a rage pro card. If XFree86 has a pci driver for a given chipset, it will most likely work as an agp card too, as my rage card is an ati xpert@work 4meg rage pro. Not a great card, but not a bad one. XFree86 supports the Mach64 chipset rather well. XFree86 chipset readmes: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/ As for sound cards, the same principle applies. Flip through the pcm driver's list of supported sound card chipsets. I chose the turtle beach malibu, an isa card based on the cs4237 chipset. The pcm driver supports this card just dandy, and all your windows games should handle it just fine too. look in: /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS -j Viren R. Shah writes: > > Hi, > Anyone have any recommendations for a video card and a sound card > for a dual boot FreeBSD and Win98 system? > > I'm currently thinking of getting the Creative Labs Riva TNT 16MB > AGP card for $85. > > I have no idea as to what a good sound card for FreeBSD is. > > Any and all suggestions are welcomed. > > Thanks > Viren > -- > Viren Shah | "You can't trust code that you did not totally > Research Associate, RST Inc. | create yourself. (Especially code from > viren@rstcorp.com | companies that employ people like me.)" > http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah | - Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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