On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:26:20 -0500, Jason Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > IMHO, if you just want 2D, pretty much any bottom of the barrel card > > will work. > > I'd add that Matrox cards are excellent in the 2D arena. I still have an old > G200 here and It beats the socks off the ATI Rage128 I also have as far as > clarity and general piqué are concerned. > > Obviously, the Rage128 does better than the G200 in the 3D department, > although not in FreeBSD for some reason I have yet to fathom out. In Linux > it works fine.
If you want hardware accellerated 3D (direct rendering) you can use any radeon upto and including the 9250 (which I have). It works fine in both 2D and 3D. Direct rendering now also works on AMD64. For 3D you have to load the agp and radeon modules. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards
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