Re: Video Card

[Evan Van Dyke <vandyke@bme.ri.ccf.org>]

Dave Swegen wrote:
> If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by
> all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU.
> According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide
> and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d performance on the market
> (well, he would say that, wouldn't he ;)
> 
> Hopefully the V3 2k card I ordered yesterday should arrive any day now, and
> with a bit of luck it should be overclockable so that it runs at the same
> speed as the 3k model.

By the way, does anyone know if the TV tuner in the Voodoo3-3500 is the
same as STB's original TV tuner chipset?  eg... will it work with the
bt848 driver?  And/or is it supported under some other driver?

--Evan