[ale] Video card for XFree86 at high res

[Jim Kinney]

I have an older Matrox Millineum on my home machine that is just
fantastic. The NRIVA sets are "not yet ready for prime time". I have three
of those at work at at >= 16 bit color there is a lot of "snow" on mouse
movement and window movement. Matrox has consistently been a winner for
reliability as well.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Steve Tynor wrote:

> Thanks to all for all the help with my SiS 8326 video configuration
> problem. The concensus is that I'd done pretty much all there was to do: 
> the card simply is not yet supported well under XFree86 3.3.3.
> 
> So...  It's time to choose a different card.  Here are the ones the
> dealer carries for which I could swap.   My requirement is to be able to 
> run >=1280x1024, >=24bpp, >=75Hz refresh, non-interlaced.
> 
> Which of the following cards are best supported (at those resolutions)
> by XFree86? 
> 
> 	Card				XFree86 server
> 
> 	Matrox Millenium G200		XF86_SVGA
> 	ATI Fury			??? not supported?
> 	TNT "Riva"			XF86_SVGA
> 	3D Interactive "Banshee"	??? not supported?
> 
> (I've checked http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, but am looking for
> some folk with real-world experience with these cards -- I naively
> thought the SiS card would work based on my preliminary browing of the
> web -- would like a warm fuzzy that whatever I replace it with will
> "just work").  
> 
> If you'd recommend "none of the above", what's a good, reliable card
> that I ought to be looking for?  I'm not a game player, so 3d gaming
> engines aren't all that important for me: I'm just looking for a good
> high res x server for lots of xterms, emacs's, netscape windows.
> 
> Thanks a bunch!
> 
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