Recommendations for a video card for FreeBSD...

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Hello everyone.

Well, I need a video card here. The one in my current box died on me. :(

Anyways, so I need a new video card. I dont need anything super fancy, just something that is fairly straightforward and works with X.

I'm planning on dual booting this machine with FreeBSD 4.6 and Slackware 8.1. (for fun)

So i need a card that will work with both distros.

Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations? Like I said, dont need a super duper card with 64mb+ memory. I would imagine a card with 16-32mb of RAM.

Also, do you recommend a AGP or PCI card?
What brand? ATI seems to be pretty popular?
Anything else?

Thanks guys.

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PS. My mother-in-law is in town this weekend so I wont be able to play with my firewall to setup snort. :(

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ATI traditionally has lots of support under XFree86 also, any VooDoo 3's have great support, if you have any of those lying around. Just make sure to check www.XFree86.org to make sure your card is supported.

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Just out of curiosity, what card's does everyone here use?

I've been reading the documentation at xfree86.org and I see quite a few cards are supported at 4.2.1.

I'm going to install 4.6 which comes default with 3.3.6 I believe. I would then need to upgrade X to 4.2.1.

ATI cards seem popular. Any makes or models in particular?

Just want to find a inexepensive card that will run X for both FreeBSD and Slackware 8.1. :D

Thanks again guys!

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Back...found a couple of cards and prices...tell me what you think:

ATI Xpert 128 16MB AGP $29.00

ATI XPERT 2000 PRO 32MB 4X AGP NO TV-OUT - $34.00

ATI Radeon 7000/VE 32MB SDRAM $30.00

Pretty close in price.

Also found this link:

http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html

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While I haven't tried FreeBSD 4.7 yet I have found that as far as the 4.6 and below go it's better to not install X in the install. Just install everything you want but X, then go to XFree86.org and download the version of X you want, They do provide precompiled Binaries nowadays for FreeBSD. Then just pkg_add till your hearts content, configure and your done. That's the way I usually install X on FreeBSD anyways. .02 cents...

BTW I pretty much have voodoo 3000's in most of my machines that run X however, I do have a couple radeon's and some Matrox Mil. II's as well. Depending on what window manager you're planning on running almost any video card will do.

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as far as the 4.6 and below go it's better to not install X in the install

Ya, I actually read that. 4.6 comes with version 3.3.6 (Or something like that) on the default install. Probably best to just download the new version of X and install. (More to learn! Cool!!)

I'm still trying to locate a decent, cheap card to plug into my box.

Found a couple so far. Here's what they are are the $ is:

ATI Pro 32MB XPERT 2000 $34.95
MSI Geforce2 MX 200 16MB AGP $22.00
VisionTek Geforce2 MX 200 32mb AGP $26.00

Of course, if I needed to shell out a bit more cash to get a little bit better card, that's alright. :)

Anyone have a particular brand or model they recommend? One they have had success with?

Thanks guys.

Tarman

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Actually, I think im going to go with a Geforce2 MX card. Reason being is that it's fairly cheap and I have found some pretty good documentation on getting X up and running on GeForce2 cards.

Now I justhave to purchase it. heheh

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