Subject: Re: Which 3d video card do people use?
To: Andy R <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
From: Joe Reed <jnr@po.cwru.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/06/2002 11:59:08
nearly anything will work,

check www.xfree86.org for a listing of supported video cards.  i've run x4 and 
netbsd successfully on TNT2 and ATI Rage 128.

you may want to try a new ATI (their new card is really quite good) or perhaps 
the new Gforce.  basically, see what XFree86 supports.  that'll be your 
limiting factor.  If x supports it, then you can run it under netbsd.

--joe


On Wednesday 04 September 2002 07:25 pm, Andy R wrote:
> Hello all. I am thinking of buying a new video card to
> replace my old Riva TNT from a few years back. I dual
> boot NetBSD and Windows: Here are my criteria for
> buying the card:
>
> 1. Must be compatible with NetBSD/XFree86 in 2d, don't
> really care about 3d acceleration under NetBSD (or do
> I?).
>  a. I am using 1.5.4_ALPHA right now, but I can update
> that and use XFree 4.2.x if necessary.
>
> 2. Must be a nice, stable card for 3d gaming under
> windows.
>
> 3. Video capture, tv out, etc a bonus but not
> necessary.
>
> 4. Preference is for ATI or Matrox first, then Nvidia.
>
> Any info would be helpful because I haven't really
> looked at video cards seriously for a while.
>
> Thanks for any input provided. I really like my games,
> so hopefully those will be the people I will hear
> from...
>
> Andy
>
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