Axp-Hardware Archive
Re: VGA issue

Subject: Re: VGA issue
From: Ben Shelton (shelton@nipl.com)
Date: Tue Dec 7 01:19:13 1999


Iwao Makino wrote:
>
> hi all(not much yet?)
>
> Just wondering what everyone out there doing thesedays...
> Since most of x86 gone to AGP, and most(not 100%), but all alpha on the
> market does not have AGP yet. What are the choices for more than 8MB video
> cards?

Well from what I understand, nearly all PCI video cards will work. I
don't know this from experience though, so you may want to get another
opinion. And I just read recently that 3dfx released a Voodoo 3 3000
PCI version with 16MB and a 350MHz RAMDAC, which is apparently about as
fast as the AGP version in practice. Not a bad solution, but I don't
know how the drivers are for alpha linux (I *want* to but don't have my
alpha quite yet =) I think I'd prefer a G400 (blah, AGP only
apparently) or Rage 128 card though. Does anyone have experience with
these?

Good luck,
Ben



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