Re: recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Tracy
Marc Schlensog wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: > > > Assuming TGA (not TGA2) hardware can be found at a reasonable price > > (probably not a good assumption), how does it compare to the above? > > Do you expect an answer as in "slow"? That

Re: recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Hallo Bob Matrox Millenium is also an option. Following advices made on this list, I bought a matrox millenium g450 that works perfect. ( Didn't try DRI ) The not so new red hat 6.1 installation guide for alpha has also a list of supported graphic card that you might find useful, for instance S

Re: recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:52:41PM +0200, Marc Schlensog wrote: > > Is there such a thing as VESA fb support on Alphas, or is that > > strictly an x86 kind of thing? > Don't know if VESA-fb is available. FB in general is available. At > least Matroxfb and pm2/pm3 work. As of 2.6.12, matroxfb was

Re: recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Robert Oram
Bob Tracy wrote: (As an aside, is *anyone* affiliated with the alphalinux.org site going to update 6+ year old FAQs? It's true that many things have not changed, but the sections on recommended and/or supported video hardware definitely could stand some updating.) The subject hasn't come up in

Re: recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Marc Schlensog
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: >[...] > Searching back through approx. three years' worth of list >archives > suggests the following: > > ATI 7000, 7500, 9100: good choices, but the 7000 is slow compared to > the other two, and non-ATI-branded cards

recommended PCI video cards

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Tracy
(As an aside, is *anyone* affiliated with the alphalinux.org site going to update 6+ year old FAQs? It's true that many things have not changed, but the sections on recommended and/or supported video hardware definitely could stand some updating.) The subject hasn't come up in many moons, so I fi