Re: Video card
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:59:36PM +1000, Peter Eades wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:21:29PM +1000, Peter Eades wrote:
> > > I am thinking of upgrading my current s3 trio 1 mg video card to sothing
> > > a bit nicer (Feed up with "unable to alocate default background"
> > > messages) and was wondering if anyone had any recomendations for cards
> > > which "run well under Debian" 2D/3D might be nice??
> >
> > Do you have AGP? I just bought the Riva-128-based Diamond Viper V330 (4mb)
> > yesterday, to replace my PCI S3 Trio64V+ (2mb). Seems pretty nice.
> >
>
> I am restricted to a PCI type. I am lead to wonder however what would
> people consider to be the perfect Debian (Or linux in general) system
> maybe this is somthing that we should be thinking about for inclusion on
> the web page. I know there are lists of supported hardware, but thats
> not quite the same thing is it??
> Pete
>
If you are going to go with the PCI bus, you can't really go wrong with the
Matrox Millenium I or II. Both very fast cards and well supported.
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