Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really? Interesting. Guess FreshMeat musta got it wrong. :-) John
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Get a 3dfx voodoo3 it works . and it's cheap hehe steven On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really? Interesting. Guess FreshMeat musta got it wrong. :-) John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOG7R635p9vE7eOnjEQJlQACfcZlbvTDmtJhDsNIAEPr/Yer6MSYAnRIY F4zWlnCADO+eeAl/I17CDcrO =Dihs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hmmm, any supported cards that acceleration *is* supported, or is it something I shouldn't really worry about? I'm just looking for a good PCI card in the $50-150 US range. I think one card I was looking at (STB Velocity 4400) supported Direct 3D and OpenGL. Thanks! Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org John
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
The only accelrated drivers available right now are in a commercial package for $80. Here are some options in the price range you're looking for (don't by an STB product that isn't a Voodoo board. They were bought by 3Dfx and are no longer providing driver updates for any of their older boards. I know this because I have the board you mentioned in one of my computers) The better choices are: 16MB OEM version of a TNT2 TNT2 Vanta, faster than a TNT, not as fast as a full TNT2, bu typically around $100 S3 Savage Pro or Pro+ chipset board Voodoo 3 2500, or 3000 ATi Rage Fury These aren't the fastest boards, but in your price range they're all solid performers. However, if you do some carefull shopping, you can get a 32MB TNT2 board for around $150. They are greart performers and have excellent video quality. Check www.pricewatch.com Sam On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hmmm, any supported cards that acceleration *is* supported, or is it something I shouldn't really worry about? I'm just looking for a good PCI card in the $50-150 US range. I think one card I was looking at (STB Velocity 4400) supported Direct 3D and OpenGL. Thanks! Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org John
Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: I'm shopping around for a good card to run under L-M 6.1. Is it a bad idea for me to just look at what chipset the card uses and amount of ram? I'm looking at NVidia Riva TNT cards w/ 8-16mb's. Could I expect any of these various cards to be supported even if the drivers are only for Windoze? I'm not a big gamer, but I expect my sys performance would increase noticably upgrading from 2mb to 16mb. Also, what cards use the Trident chipset? I'm still looking I really like the one I've got, it's just a bit outdated. The Riva TNT *is* supported well under both Linux and Windoze. At this time, though, you can only expect hw acceleration under Windoze with this card. John Hmmm, any supported cards that acceleration *is* supported, or is it something I shouldn't really worry about? I'm just looking for a good PCI card in the $50-150 US range. I think one card I was looking at (STB Velocity 4400) supported Direct 3D and OpenGL. Thanks! -Josh 3dfx, tnt, rage, and mga all have drivers rangeing from very closed source to GPL. The two top performers are the mga (g400max), and 3dfx. and just happen tobe the two extreams for licenses too. I think the g400 was a little ahead in the last bench marks i saw, but i've no clue what the 3dfx was running under either. The rage cards run under the mach64 accelerated server from XFree86, but the 32 megs on the g400 IMO picks up the slack. The rage cards glx driver is a bit faster than the tnt. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
