From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 17 22:49: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CAF37B405 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1I6mqZR032004; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:18:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: good video cards @ ~100$? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020218062947.GR12136@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020218062947.GR12136@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 18 Feb 2002 18:18:52 +1130 Message-Id: <1014014934.439.40.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 17:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Anything reasonably decent for video at around 100$ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message