[plug] Any cheap PCI vid cards s/h ?

[John Knight]

No, not built in! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Dieeeeeeeeee!
If a cheap pci card that supports OpenGL is what is in question then that's 
a rather tall order as OpenGL drivers were seen as an "added bonus" when 3D 
cards were first coming out. I haven't had any experience with the AGP 
version but I know that the pci card had good mpeg decoding (quite good for 
divx) and runs decently on my mate's 133.

If it was utterly slow, are you referring to a 2 Mb version or using old 
drivers? This would give you quite a significant performance hit, but the 
first Linux installation I got running was using one and it ran quite well.

anarchist tomato

>
>and if anything like my sis based builtintoMB sis chipset - utterly
>hopeless under Linux because the drivers are so basic - the 3d support,
>acceleration, opengl etc are not supported by the Linux drivers.
>Display looks OK and is reliable, but terribly slow.  I have also seen
>some (2 poss 3) dud 6326 add on cards that were duds.
>
>BillK
>
>On 13 Jun 2001 10:31:14 +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > A common one that I can personally vouch for is a 4 Mb SiS 6326. I was 
>using
> > this in some of my older machines and it has great mpeg decoding plus
> > Direct3D support if you're using "Windoze".
> >
> > Net Solution in Morley might have one.
> > anarchist tomato
> >
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Looking for cheap pci video card, 2 - 4MByte,
> > >
> > >Prefer ET4000 or ET6000 ;)
>
>
>

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