From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 0: 9:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5646A37B69E for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19850; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:38:38 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01011617151006.71301@xlr82xs.shacknet.nu> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:38:38 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: xlr82xs Subject: RE: Graphics Card Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Jan-01 xlr82xs wrote: > I've looked through the fbsd handbook for supported graphics cards, and i > cant find anything, so i assume that everything is supported by freebsd > atleast. Try the Xfree86 documentation. All video cards will do text and most will do VESA which is the limit of FreeBSD's graphical capabilities :) > I'm thinking about replaceing my old s3 trio dx graphics card, but i'm also > kind of poor..and australian which hampers things even more... It's not that bad ;) > and i was wondering if anyone could suggest a nice graphics card (hopefully > something capable of more than 16bit 800x600 under x11) that could be picked > up fairly cheap, but still is compatable ? Well, a newer S3.. You can get a TNT2 M64 PCI for ~AU$120, and an AGP version for ~AU$110. (32Mb RAM blah blah blah). These work pretty well in X.. You *will* have trouble finding PCI cards :( You can get ATI Rage Pro Turbo's for ~AU$80. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message