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

[John Knight]

tis a dire situation indeed my friend. it sounds like the only thing left to 
do is to look in the quokka for a voodoo banshee or some ati card or 
something. did the matrox millenium g200 support opengl? i know that the 
banshee does and the ati card MIGHT support it but i remember hearing that 
the g200 doesn't. is this the case (anyone out there who knows, please tell 
us!)? if you can get opengl support with it, g200s are fairly plentiful and 
quite cheap.
anarchist tomato

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>
>Yes its built in.  It uses 8MB of the main memory.  OpenGL gears gives
>30-35 fps on opening (whatever size that is) and 3-5 fps at 1024x768.
>According to what I can see at xfree86.org, the driver has only basic
>settings and is really not suitable for any thing like video at more
>than postage stamp size.  I have been trying a few second hand shops for
>alternatives, but PCI cards are scarce (no AGP slot, even though the
>builtin uses an agp channel).  I have an old 4MB S3 virge which was
>faster out of the box in this machine, but unfortuantely that is in
>another PC now.  It did come with what sounded like quite sophisticated
>windoze drivers (which I never tried), but Linux support has turned out
>as basic.  In the meantime it gives me something to winge about!, and
>next time I will know a bit more about which video card I will be use.
>
>BillK
>
>On 13 Jun 2001 22:58:36 +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > 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
> > >
>
>
>

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