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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:21:00PM -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
>  Any recommendations for the absolute cheapest pci
>video card with 8+MB that works well with FreeBSD?

FreeBSD only uses VGA features so anything should work.  The
card restrictions relate to X - see http://www.xfree.org/

>  Newegg has a "Palit Daytona Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 32MB SDRAM PCI"
>for $34 bucks shipped.

Nvidia cards need a proprietary driver, though I believe it works
fairly well.

Peter