Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:39:57 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: John Preisler <john@vapornet.net> Cc: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? Message-ID: <3700D42D.15FB@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <199903301308.IAA27047@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net>
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John, Viren, > From what I gather the riva tnt is unsupported, or has immature > support in xfree. It says it is supported in XFree 3.3.3.1, but I have noone to confirm how reliable it is. I do have an AI Expert at work 4 meg AGP card and it works great with XFree86 (ver 3.3.3.1 and FreeBSD 3.1-R) > 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. I had mentioned the SoundBlaser PCI 128 (an ES 1370 card) to Viren, but the advantage of an ISA sound card is that all the old DOS games you have work properly. And as this is going to be a Dual FreeBSD and Win98 machine, this may be important to you. Bye Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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