Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] Good cheap video card

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] Good cheap video card
From: Gary Counsellor (sineigs_AT_eskimo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 19:04:49 EET

I agree with Vince on the Matrox Cards. I've ran nothing but for the last 5-6
years in Linux and haven't had much of any problem at all. Presently I'm
running a G400 in my work machine. Agreeably not the cheapest but by now
they should be more affordable with the G450 etc. out. I've always believed
that a kicka** Gaming Machine is great for doing audio/video work (or vice
versa) I just wish I could convince myself to play more games.

On Wednesday 23 January 2002 00:24, you wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've finally had it with my SiS 6326 video card. It has a number of
> annoying drawing errors which I can only fix by turning off
> acceleration, which makes it mind-numbingly slow. And it's got 8MB
> VRAM but the driver can only use 4. I swear, my old ATI Mach64 was
> better than this thing.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good AGP card that's reasonably speedy for
> running XFree86 4.x? I don't run games or watch movies, probably the
> most video-intensive stuff I do is gimp, or ardour.
>
> I'd prefer a card that's a bit "obsolete" so I can pick one up very
> cheap...
>
> And finally, for an on=topic issue: The card must not cause problems
> with digital audio on the PCI bus, as described in my (aging)
> audio=quality-HOWTO. 

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