Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:43:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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: <790.922801421@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:33:18 CST." <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net>
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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 I have one of these cards (STB Velocity 4400) and use it with XFree86 3.3.3.1's SVGA server, no problems. It's not a mad speed-demon or anything, but it's more than stable and usable for me at 1280x1024x32 (I could go even larger at this depth in 16MB of video memory, but I don't like teeny weeny eye-strain-o-fonts. It's certainly correct that nothing supports the 3D features at all at this time. Heck, even for windows I have yet to see anything which purports to take advantage of the Riva TNT chipset to a degree close to what games are routinely doing with the Voodoo chipsets, and this is supposed to be a comparable architecture. We'll certainly not see its abilities exploited to the fullest by DirectX, that's for sure. However, for a really cheap 2D card with lots of RAM, I like it. It certainly beats the 4MB Matrox Millenium it replaced and it only set me back $89. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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