This is slightly useless as I don't have this in an alpha, but I've got a
PCI ATI XPERT 128 with 16MB.
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Rich Payne wrote:
: 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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