Re: Looking for a good video card to use in Xwindows.
Xerithane (warped@inreach.com)
Tue, 19 May 1998 05:30:25 +0000
Chris wrote:
>
> I've been using a S3 ViRGE 4 megabyte card very happily. I run X at
> 1024x768 with 24bpp.
>
> It works fine with XFree86 3.3.2 and FreeBSD. I can't speak on behalf of
> Linux.
>
> Chris
I've been using S3 cards for about 2 years now, both with Linux and
windows (don't ask, not my choice) I've never had anything bad to say
about them, nor have I had any problems with it. I have a virge with
the 3ds or s3d or whatever it is attempt at 3d chipset which does
nothing, but I paid 65$ for it last year, 2mg and I run at 800x600
(crappy monitor, can run 1280x1024x16bpp on higher res monitors) with
24bpp color and it runs quick and doesn't have any glitches that I have
noticed with other cards like Diamond who have specialized chipsets (the
new stealth or 3dfx cards) My recommendation is if you want a cheap
good card, go with S3.
Xerithane
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