Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards
I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got
the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it.
The online manual is available at
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_manuals/older/home.cfm if you want
to check out the specs. It's an old card, but it seems able to handle
plenty of bandwidth (e.g., I'm doing 1600x1200x16@75Hz without any
trouble), and Xfree86 supports it well. (According to the 3.3.6
documentation at http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/MGA.html, "This server is
very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers.") I
assume it'd be pretty lame for 3D graphics and games, not that I'd know,
but for text editing and such it's great.
I paid something like $35 at a local shop, but I've seen them on ebay for
around $10.---jbf
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote:
> On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
> (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more
> interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
> platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come. I want
> to avoid the situation I'm in now. I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card
> for which there is no X server in the Debian packages. I can get X servers
> elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.
>
> At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury. I'd be grateful for any
> advice, opinions, or caveats.
>
> AdTHANKSvance
> Chris
>
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