On Wednesday 05 December 2001 20:40, you wrote: Forgot those sorry. With matrox I instantly think of business markets/people where those cards for 2D are THE brand to buy. Like you say, mostly for the detailed, crisp and excellent pictures it produces. I believe this is due to the excellent RF filters (RF filters take noise signal out of the signal, don't ask me more... I just read that somewhere) they have....
regards > For very good 2D I prefer Matrox: not many problems with drivers and > excellent picture (I do image processing) > Lionel > > --- "TD - Sales Int'l Holland B.V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 03 December 2001 05:45, you wrote: > > > i'm going to be getting a new video card soon. i'm running > > > freebsd/Xfree-4. what card could you guys recommend? i'm not into 3D > > > gaming, but i do like the "extras". like transparent menus, fade-in's, > > > etc, etc. i run KDE as my desktop enviroment. > > > > In my eyes it's a waiste of cpu cycles.... but it's all 2D so you don't > > need a 3D accelerated card, just a fast 2D one. If you aren't gonna play > > any games with it I'd recommend a nVidia TNT2 M64 or the likes. Those are > > really cheap now and probably have enough 2D power for the rest of your > > lifetime, since 2D can't be much fancier than it is already. > > > > > basically i want something that won't be out dated next week, but i > > > don't need a ati-radeon 8500 either. is there anything that is being > > > actively developed with open-source drivers? what about cards that > > > have tv-tuners? is there any in paticalar that with linux/bsd better > > > than the others? thanks. and please cc me any replies > > > > nVidia has closed source drivers for the X server if you are looking for > > 3D support. X has opensource drivers which only support 2D as well. I > > have ran the opensource drivers for a little while and had no problems > > with them. If you want 3D you need to get the closed source drivers from > > nVidia. I believe they want to release them open source but can't because > > of some pieces of code that are patented and thus can't be released to > > the public. I'm not too sure about that tho', check the website if you > > want the details. nVidia actively works on their closed source drivers > > tho' so that's a plus. Ofcourse old cards like an AGP S3 Trio3D or > > something would do fine probably but I haven't seen those for ages..... > > The cheapest cards we supply are nVidia TNT2 M64's with 32MB of memory. I > > don't have any experience with Ati cards... but seeing the lists there > > are still some issues with those > > > > > > regards > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
