Video Card / Monitor Recommendations

[Niall Kavanagh]

Not _entirely_ true. I just grabbed the latest drivers from
http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html (click
accept and then on the penguin) last night. X is a lot snappier (and better
looking) and I was running the demos that came with MESA just last night. ;)

If you're constrained to PCI I'd go with Derek's recommendation. You'll get
better performance with a decent 2D card and a Monster II or a Banshee than
you would with a plain TNT, and TNT2 only comes in AGP flavors.

Niall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Martin [mailto:dmartin at LanCity.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:09 PM
> To: Bryan Strawser
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: Video Card / Monitor Recommendations
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Bryan Strawser wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!  This is my first post to the list, but hope to 
> be an active
> > participant...
> > 
> > I've been building a linux pc over the past two weeks and 
> am currently in
> > the market for a solid video card and a 19" monitor - any 
> recommendations?
> > 
> > This will be on a P1-133 system w/ 128MB of RAM - the card 
> will have to be a
> > PCI bus as I do not have AGP with this motherboard..  I'm 
> really looking for
> > a solid/higher end 3d videocard now - and grab a monitor 
> down the road a bit
> > :)
> 
> Your only real option right now, though this will change 
> soon, is a 3Dfx
> Voodoo Banshee based board.  I think they make a PCI-based 
> version of the
> Voodoo3, but I'm not sure.  If not, look for a Voodoo 
> Banshee, or look at
> the Voodoo2 and a 2D card.
> 
> The Riva TNT cards are supported under X11, but there isn't 
> really any 3d
> support yet.
> 
> *******************************
> |       Derek D. Martin       |
> |  UNIX System Administrator  |
> |   derek.martin at arris-i.com  |
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