[ale] Video card for XFree86 at high res

[Jim Popovitch]

Go with the RIVA TNT , and use the RIVA 128 drivers to get yourself started.
I have a Diamond Viper 550 RIVA TNT which happily runs with the RIVA 128
driver that ships with RedHat 5.2.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
 From: Steve Tynor <tynor at outside.atlanta.twr.com>
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 6:18 PM
Subject: [ale] Video card for XFree86 at high res


>Thanks to all for all the help with my SiS 8326 video configuration
>problem. The concensus is that I'd done pretty much all there was to do:
>the card simply is not yet supported well under XFree86 3.3.3.
>
>So...  It's time to choose a different card.  Here are the ones the
>dealer carries for which I could swap.   My requirement is to be able to
>run >=1280x1024, >=24bpp, >=75Hz refresh, non-interlaced.
>
>Which of the following cards are best supported (at those resolutions)
>by XFree86?
>
> Card XFree86 server
>
> Matrox Millenium G200 XF86_SVGA
> ATI Fury ??? not supported?
> TNT "Riva" XF86_SVGA
> 3D Interactive "Banshee" ??? not supported?
>
>(I've checked http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html, but am looking for
>some folk with real-world experience with these cards -- I naively
>thought the SiS card would work based on my preliminary browing of the
>web -- would like a warm fuzzy that whatever I replace it with will
>"just work").
>
>If you'd recommend "none of the above", what's a good, reliable card
>that I ought to be looking for?  I'm not a game player, so 3d gaming
>engines aren't all that important for me: I'm just looking for a good
>high res x server for lots of xterms, emacs's, netscape windows.
>
>Thanks a bunch!
>
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