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Date:      18 Feb 2002 18:18:52 +1130
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: good video cards @ ~100$?
Message-ID:  <1014014934.439.40.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020218062947.GR12136@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20020218062947.GR12136@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 17:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Anything reasonably decent for video at around 100$ I can pickup at
> Frys that'll work with xfree4?  I'm trying to play dvd/video and
> my mach64 card is showing its age.  (or at least that's the most
> likely culpret in this 1.2ghz box...)
> 
> Anything out there what I might want to spring more money for that's
> really worth it?

GeForce 2 MX?
You'll need to use Matthew Dodd's nvidia shim stuff but it works well
for playing movies etc.

(My wife's TNT2 dual PII-350 system plays DivX easily)

I would expect them to be <$40 US.

---
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


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