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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which video cards work best? Date: 15 Mar 1997 12:52:10 GMT Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5ge61q$idc@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <username-1403972246240001@ip-pdx18-12.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37090 In article <username-1403972246240001@ip-pdx18-12.teleport.com>, Your Name <username@teleport.com> wrote: >Anyone know which video cards work best with FreeBSD? I checked with one local >PC vendor and he has a dozen different ones, from $40 to $400. I don't >want to waste my money buying a cheap one that I will want to replace as >soon as I get it working. On the other hand, I don't want to spend a lot >on a fancy one with a bunch of features that the OS can't take full >advantage of. FreeBSD itself will be happy with just about any VGA card that you can get, but XFree86 has a list of supported card types and chipsets. I have a cheap generic S3 which cost me around $40 and it works fine with X in 800x600 mode, 256 colors. With a second meg of videoram it could do 1280x1024. Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html