> > I've been asked which graphics card to get for a purchase of 5 > systems to run Linux. There are a lot of new cards out there > and new versions of cards I was familiar with but enough has > changed that I'm not sure exactly what to specify. > > I and some friends have Mach64 cards at home that we bought about > a year ago and are very hapily running Debian Linux on but what > would I specify to get a XFree86 X-Server compatible graphics > card now? > > If you have a recomendation for a _specific_ model of graphics > card that you know works (1280x1024x256), please let me know. > It will speed my search. > > Thanks. > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________ > David M. Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
I have one of the newer Mach64 cards. From what I've heard basically all of the Mach64 cards are supported by the latest versions of XFree86. I must point out though that the Mach64 cards that are about 1 year old work just great with the current release of XFree86 but that the ones that are about 6 months old or so are only supported by the newest current beta release of the server. So, if you are planning to get Mach64 cards.. you shouldn't have a problem getting them to work but you will have to use the newest beta release of XFree86 which I don't believe is currently available in the Debian release. Cheers! Richard.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------
