Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:48:43 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphics card Message-ID: <3A67024B.E0A9DC23@mitre.org> References: <200101180219.UAA14939@fep.hirshfields.com>
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"Roger P. Johnson" wrote: > > > Do not get a ATI Rage Fury 128 AGP. Matrox makes good cards that work well with X. > > I disagree. I use to be a fan of Matrox Cards. I've used the Matrox Millenium II, Mystique 200, and the G200. All of which have glitches with X. Adobe Acrobat > with any of these cards messes up and can't display the page clearly. If you > switch from X to the console (via cntl-alt-Fn) you will get sometimes a > "rainbow" look across the top of the monitor. Sometimes it stays and locks > your console up. With the Mystique 220, I get a ghosting block on the screen > that will just stay there until you reboot. It looks like a UPC bar code. > > Whereas ATI Rage IIC and Xpert98 all work fine with no hickup's or side > effects that I have seen. I'd bet it is more of the X server then that of > the Matrox card itself. As I have used the Millenium II in a dual boot > NT/FreeBSD and it worked fine using NT. > > I'd stay with the ATI's. That's odd, I'm using the G200 right now and have experianced only 1 (one) graphical anomaly to date. When I start up fxtv (with a WinTV 98 card) X starts displaying the picture in the old location for a second before bringing it back into fxtv window, which leaves garbage on the screen. I fully believe this to be a problem with fxtv, and not with my video card though. I'm wondering if there isn't some oddity with your motherboard that is causing the problem? -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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