On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:35:50 +0530 (IST), Faiz Kazi wrote:
>
> > I'm putting together a large network of X terminals, and I have the
> > opportunity to pick any card I want for the several nodes.
> >
> > This question is asked very frequently on the newbie list, and we
> > see a lot of opinions.
> > Which are/is the video card(s) that are considered or found to be
> > the most reliable, when it comes to XFree86?
> > Here I mean that all other factors like additional featues, multihead
> > support, AA, super high resolutions etc, take the back seat as
> > compared to pure reliablity and compatibility as factors. Also
> > It should be relatively inexpensive.
> [SNIP]
> > I wanted to try as many cards and configurations such as mother boards,
> > different X-server versions, etc but I've been only limited to (or have
> > only been exposed so far to) :
> >
> > Matrox G200 8MB SDRAM
> > S3 Virge GX/2
> > SiS 6326 - 4MB AGP
> > Trident 975
>
> If G200 is available (i.e. inexpensive) for you, go for it. It is
> very stable. BTW, it also has excellent multihead support, high
> resolutions, etc. And the quality of the picture is the best among
> others.
>
> As for S3Virge, XFree 4.x support has been a bit lacking for it,
> but Ani Joshi can tell you more.
>
> Can't tell anything about SiS and Trident.
>
> There isn't such thing as "the best card for XFree 4.x", only a
> number of opinions. My opinion is that Matrox cards work very well, while
> ATI ones have "features" (mainly due to an enormous number of chip
> versions and subversions) which decrease stability.
I think they have simply used new PCI ids to distinguish chips grades.. If
you want something inexpensive find old Rage Pro cards, they should still
be available (like Xpert XX).
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> BTW, one thing to take into account: if you use 1024x768@24bpp (in
> fact, usually 32bpp), 4M videoram is enough, but 8M is much better since
> the rest will be used for storing offscreen pixmaps.
>
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