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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What videocard for fbsd 2.1? Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:05:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4pv1hq$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ppdo1$26p@news.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E alexlh@xs4all.nl (Alex Le Heux) wrote: > Could someone advise me as to what would be the best PCI videocard to > use with FreeBSD 2.1? I'm thinking about getting an ATI Mach64, but > I heard there were some problems with an unsupported DAC or something. There's no such thing like ``the best videocard''. Yep, recent Mach64's are known to not work with the stock XFree86 3.1.2 server, you need a more recent version (which is only available as beta yet). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)