Hi Jay, Is there any chance with a radeon 8500 agp?
I have one in another computer. I tried it much earlier in the year with no success. I bought it from the Crucial memory people. Kind regards, Peter Watkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Estabrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kelledin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: Re: PCI Video Card? > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:01:49PM -0600, Kelledin wrote: > > > > Currently I'm using a Radeon 7500 on my LX164. It's a "mystery" > > branding--maybe ATI, maybe PowerColor, maybe something else--but > > it works. > > I've had good luck with: > > 1. ATI-branded 7500 > 2. VisionTek-branded XTACY 9100 > > Stay away from the 7000 (VE?), as it has caused oroblems with the > 4.3.0 driver, and is somewhat slow, especially when compared to the > 7500 and 9100. > > > Matrox is also pretty good with 2D accel, but DRI and XVideo > > don't work for Matrox PCI cards (at least not last time I knew). > > Matrox DRI support doesn't work on Alpha, period. > > For 2D stuff, they work great, though not blazingly fast. > > > nVidia cards...hmmm. Not great. It's very difficult to find a > > PCI nVidia card with any chipset faster than a TNT2. Even then, > > it's a bit of a crap shoot as to whether it will work with SRM. > > XVideo might work, you might get some 2D accel, but you > > definitely won't get DRI support. I'd avoid nVidia for Alpha > > systems. > > My sentiments also; a great many problems the with SRM consoles of > older Alphas. On those that do work (LX/SX, Miata), the 2D speed is > pretty good with the normal XFree86 "nv" driver, but there's no hope > of 3D support. > > > I'm told 3Dfx PCI cards (Voodoo3 or later, mind you) work pretty > > well. I haven't heard much about them though. > > Yes, they do work quite well in 2D and 3D; even though they don't > do "real" DRM, the 3D support is FAST, at least comparable to the > newer Radeons when using a V3 3000. The older Banshee is also quite > usable, though slower than the V3 cards. Note that the latest 4.3.0 > tdfx driver seems to demand more than 16MB of video RAM in order to > run at greater than 1024x768 resolution, a rather severe limitation, > IMHO, that the earlier 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 drivers don't share (IIRC). > > > Stay FAR AWAY from S3 cards. A lot of Alpha systems ship with > > these, but they're crap cards. A given S3 card might not even > > work at all for XFree86. > > This is (unfortunately) very true of the Trio64-based cards that were > shipped in many Alphas. However, at least the Savage4-based boards > (Diamond Stealth III 540, IIRC) did have a decent (2D) driver under > 4.1.0 and later, and could hold as much as 32MB of memory, but no 3D > support... > > --Jay++ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support > Hewlett-Packard Company - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 > 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
