Vern,
Nobody can help you with the video card until you tell us the maximum
capabilities of the monitor it has to feed. Most popular video
cards are way overkill for the monitors people actually have and can
afford. Running up towards the maximum capability of any monitor is
usually a mistake
Okay Ron I was a little vague mainly because
I really didn't know what I wanted. I need and
can afford pretty basic video. I found a Matrox
Mystique 2 MB card for $31 on the net the other
night and got that. The Linux hardware site says
it's great and I know it can do windoze I will probably
Nope, at least not with SMP. You must be referring to the old and now obsolete
comment found on freshmeat, dating from the early days when the emu10k1 driver
still had no SMP support. I'm running a SB Live on a dual celeron board (Abit
BP6) in SMP mode and have no problems whatsoever.
I don't
Aren't there problems with SBLive and
1) smp
2) unreal tournament
3) both at the same time? ;)
-- Stephen
Vern,
For a good price/performance you may want to look into the
Creative Labs Blaster Banshee (PCI). I believe they can be
had for 60$ US and the 2D and 3D support in Linux is
Thanks Pj !
They are on my list!
Vern
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Vern,
I've had really good luck with these PCI cards in both W98 and L-M 6.0.
They are of medium expense; have good quality and better than average
performance running under a ASUS Slot 7 mobo/Intel MMX200 CPU and
I must say that my GeForce works well under Linux. However, it is a very
expensive card and not really intended for Linux so you should consider
something a little less expensive. The TNT and TNT2 cards are a good buy, and
you shouldn't have any trouble with the majority of SB sound cards.
I'm sorry if I step on some toes here, and I double-cheked during the writing of
this mail to make sure I'm not telling lies here, but nVidia has a terrible
driver-policy. Oh yes, their cards work well in 2D, or at least good enough, but
their openGL drivers for XFree 3.3.5 are crappy.
Their
Okay Wayne thanks for the input I think the
TNT Voodoo cards (the older versions)
are available locally at a pretty decent price.
All the gamers are waiting for the newest
versions to ship to the stores here.
Vern
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I must say that my GeForce works well under
Vern,
For a good price/performance you may want to look into the
Creative Labs Blaster Banshee (PCI). I believe they can be
had for 60$ US and the 2D and 3D support in Linux is quite
good. As far as sound cards go, I have a SB Live! X-gamer,
and, using the drivers from
Ok Chris, Blasters it is!
Thanks for the info, I have to add these to the list!
Just "normal" audio/video needed at a reasonable
cost. So these cards are very approperate!
Vern
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Vern,
For a good price/performance you may want to look into the
Creative
--- vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok Chris, Blasters it is!
Thanks for the info, I have to add these to the
list!
Just "normal" audio/video needed at a reasonable
cost. So these cards are very approperate!
Vern
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Vern,
For a good
I am going to be in a position here in a
few weeks to purchase an audio card
and a video card, and would like to get
everyone's opinion on the best ones to
purchase for Linux?? They have to be
PCI type for my motherboard.
Thanks,
Vern
Vern,
I've had really good luck with these PCI cards in both W98 and L-M 6.0.
They are of medium expense; have good quality and better than average
performance running under a ASUS Slot 7 mobo/Intel MMX200 CPU and 64EDO.
They are not fancy but they are very durable and reliable cards. I
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
I am going to be in a position here in a
few weeks to purchase an audio card
and a video card, and would like to get
everyone's opinion on the best ones to
purchase for Linux?? They have to be
PCI type for my motherboard.
From the rave reviews, it's gonna
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Sound Blaster 16AWE; AOPEN PT75 S3Virge3D/2D /4mb memory on board.
PJ:
It's obvious that you don't have much interest in switching back and forth from
console to X mode, otherwise you would NOT recommend the PT75 AOPEN card. Why?
Because it messes up the
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