[plug] PCI VGA cards

[Shayne O'Neill]

I've found S3's to be a bit dodge on remote x terms on a linux box.

wierdly, on a freebsd x term box they scream along.

might just be a better driver on the freebsd box.

Also, freebsd is baffling.

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:56, Adrian Woodley wrote:
>
> > 	I've managed to convince the boss, not only that we should use linux on
> > our workstations, but they should be thin clients. On top of that, I'm
> > going to attempt to run two consoles per machine.
> >
> > To this end I need five PCI SVGA cards. Specs aren't that important,
> > provided it will do 1024x768x16 and ISN'T S3.
>
> My experience with linux-based thin clients at the POST suggests that
> specs /are/ important if you want snappy and pleasant graphics, instead
> of nasty laggy graphics. Our original workstations are P133/32MB/S3 and
> they don't perform at all well when talking to a server with a modern,
> RENDER-based graphical environment. The same machine with a better
> graphics card can be quite snappy.
>
> So avoid S3 Trio* cards, they're slow and crap. I'd say you already know
> that, going by your requirements above.
>
> I bought a few SiS based cards from Austin, and found them to be fairly
> fast (and cheap!). Alternately, NVidia GeForce4 MX PCI cards, even in a
> P133, have such great 2D performance that you could think you were
> sitting at the server. I hear that Matrox cards are excellent, too - if
> you can find any. I haven't tested those as thin clients, though.
>
> Craig Ringer
>
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