Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:37:20 -0500 From: Daniel McRobb <dwm@caida.org> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Jake <jake@checker.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What Video card to buy... Message-ID: <199901271837.MAA05102@arthur.caida.org> In-Reply-To: Message from <louie@TransSys.COM> of Wed Jan 27, 1999 9:37 EST <199901271437.JAA22119@whizzo.transsys.com>
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> > The #9 Ticket to Ride 4 and that 19" SGI LCD monitor sound like a > > nice combo, if you can foot the $3K. > > This is a wonderful combo, if you can afford it. I think the street price > is a bit less than $3K; we got a few via Ingram Micro for somewhat less > than that. > > Note that this combination isn't supported by XFree86, but is supported > by the XIG Accelerated-X package. This is the most crisp display I've > ever used, and th 1600x1024 resolution is sorta nice too. XFree86 3.3.3.1 supports the Revolution IV (I have the 32M card), as well as the SGL LCD panel. I ran it last night at 1600x1200 with 32bpp (but I don't have the SGI LCD). For what it's worth, I switched back to my Matrox Millenium II 8M for 2D; the picture quality is better, it's faster at 2D (and the server doesn't consume 50M of memory at startup like XF86_I128 did), and the server supports DGA. I'm waiting for the Xi OGL product on FreeBSD to have windowed, hardware-accelerated OpenGL for the Revolution IV (early development release is already available for Linux). That's the only reason I bought the Rev IV. If more people bugged Xi, the FreeBSD release of OGL might happen sooner... Daniel ~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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