Subject: Re: video cards
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Brian Asemi <asemisldkfj@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/24/2006 22:29:16
Rick Kelly wrote:
> Mark Weinem said:
> 
>> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Rick Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> And the market seems to have reached a point where there are only ATI
>>> and Nvidia cards that don't really work with XFree or Xorg.
>>>
>>> All I want is a card that will do 1280x1024 with a depth of 16.
>> Radeon 9250 should still be available (agp & pci version).
>> Running here with XFree, no problems.
> 
> The system that I'm sitting in front of has an:
> 
> ATI Technologies Rage Fury MAXX AGP 4x
> 
> It will drive a NEC XV17, DiamondPoint SB70, and a Sony SDM-S75 LCD at
> 1280x1024 without a problem. I can only assume that the:
> 
> Diamond Stealth S80 ( ATI Radeon )
> 
> Needs a higher horizontal frequency than the first two monitors can
> provide to do 1280x1024.
> 
> The system with the Rage Fury MAXX is NetBSD/i386 1.6.x running
> XF86 4.2.1.
> 
> I am building another box with an Athlon 64 x2 running NetBSD/i386 3.0.
> It looks like I need to buy another LCD monitor to support 1280x1024.
> The motherboard is an ASUS A8V.
> 
> Tigerdirect.com has the:
> 
> PowerColor Radeon 9250 / 128MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card
> 
> For $40. I will probably buy a couple of them.

I guess I'll post this just for the sake of getting it out there.  I 
have a card based on the nVidia MX 440, and it's worked great with every 
BSD using the nv driver, and powers my monitor which runs at 1600x1200.

Hope that helps someone :).

-Brian