On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ben Shelton wrote:
> 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?
more than 8Meg? not sure. FWIW, the 3DLabs Oxygen AGX cards are looking
like a good replacement for the Elsa Gloria Synergy.
> 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?
Stay away from TNT2 cards, they don't make it through the BIOS emulator.
The 3dfx cards do work and they are fast, but they require using XFree86
4.0 beta, I couldn't get 3.3.5 to play nicely with it.
--rdp
> Good luck,
> Ben
>
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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