From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 17:13:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA07967 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07961 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA28674; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:53:07 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601250123.LAA28674@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Which PCI VGA Card to get? To: swaits@pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:53:06 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Waits" at Jan 24, 96 11:11:39 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Waits stands accused of saying: > > Can someone make recommendations as to an "affordable" PCI vga card to > get that will work with FBSD2.1 and the latest XF86? > > I've looked around for a "generic" PCI S3 video card with no luck. Any > help is much appreciated. Huh? They're everywhere. "Expert" make an S3-868 based PCI card that's very cheap and works like a dream. We have several and XFree laps them up. (AUS$120, ExpertColor DSV3868P "Magical Playback Video" with 1M DRAM, also available with 2M) > --Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[