Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:19:11 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jay@map.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mikebo@tellabs.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: PCI video recommendations?] Message-ID: <199602100849.TAA25440@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0tkvX4-003uVvC@wormhole> from "Roland Jay Roberts" at Feb 9, 96 10:42:44 am
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Roland Jay Roberts stands accused of saying: > > >for recommendations of an accelerated PCI video card that will work well > >with XFree86 3.1.2 (included in FBSD 2.1). Any hints? > > While it might not be the best or fastest, I've always been partial to > Tseng4000 Chipset cards. Yetch! the ET4000 is bogus, stay away from it! > For PCI, a card with the ET4000W32 chipset would be the way to go. Definitely, utterly not. Not only are these chips horrid, they're right at the low end of the market, so the people using them won't spend any time on decent board layout, which can lead to poor picture quality and generally yetch output. Similar things go for the Cirrus 543x chips; I've met one of these cards where the display actually _dims_ while the CPU is busy talking to the card. *shudder* > >I've been counciled to stay away from Matrox Millenium and Trident, as > >well as the Diamond Stealth64 cards... comments? Thanks! > > Diamond does wierd things to their cards. Current Diamond cards (with a few notable exceptions mentioned in the XFree docco) are actually quite OK. I have a Stealth64 in this machine (at home) and it works just dandy. > // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ -- ]] 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 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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