From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 30 5:43:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DD514F8C for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA00792; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: John Preisler Cc: "Viren R. Shah" , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video and sound card recommendations? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:33:18 CST." <14080.53208.929759.89531@habanero.chili-pepper.net> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:43:41 -0800 Message-ID: <790.922801421@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > One must match the software to supported hardware. For video cards, > peruse the XFree86 list of supported cards. From what I gather the > riva tnt is unsupported, or has immature support in xfree. Perhaps > someone running one of these cards can say for sure. The riva tnt is I have one of these cards (STB Velocity 4400) and use it with XFree86 3.3.3.1's SVGA server, no problems. It's not a mad speed-demon or anything, but it's more than stable and usable for me at 1280x1024x32 (I could go even larger at this depth in 16MB of video memory, but I don't like teeny weeny eye-strain-o-fonts. It's certainly correct that nothing supports the 3D features at all at this time. Heck, even for windows I have yet to see anything which purports to take advantage of the Riva TNT chipset to a degree close to what games are routinely doing with the Voodoo chipsets, and this is supposed to be a comparable architecture. We'll certainly not see its abilities exploited to the fullest by DirectX, that's for sure. However, for a really cheap 2D card with lots of RAM, I like it. It certainly beats the 4MB Matrox Millenium it replaced and it only set me back $89. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message