From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 15 13:35:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03622 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:34:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25075; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:34:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Kelly cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shopping for a new video card In-Reply-To: <199803150048.SAA06795@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote: > Am thinking its time to upgrade my 2M Mach32 PCI video card for > something with a bit better performance. Yipe! Old stuff! :) > Matrox is advertising heavily. Have heard good things about value and > performance of Virge chipsets but have observed there are so many > flavors of Virge its hard to tell them apart. The Matrox Millenium II is _the_ preeminant 2d video card these days. The support for it in XFree86 is beta but does work pretty well; the XSuSE stuff brought into 3.3.2 may help things. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message