It's not Debian you are matching your card up to, it's xfree86. In fact, you will want to upgrade xfree86 to 3.3.6, so it will support your card.
I just built a couple machines with Matrox G200 16 MB cards and they work well. I am not a gamer, so I couldn't give you much info as far as the 3D cards. check http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/ for supported cards. Also, you can get the latest xfree86 deb packages from the developer's site: http://www.debian.org/~branden/ brian On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 10:38:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm putting together my first machine (upgrading from a 486, so it should be > interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. I thought 3dfx > was supposed to be a good choice (looking at the 3000), as was Matrox (the > G400). But older posts on the archives seem to indicate trouble with both > (or at least _references_ to trouble). > > NVidia (sp?) was mentioned as a possibility, but I didn't know it was > supported well. > > I hope people don't mind the poll. I honestly am at a bit of a loss with all > the new stuff I'm discovering out there, and want to make a good match with > Debian. > > Thanks for any input! > > Kenward Vaughan > > ps. My work will involve molecular modeling imagery, with VRML quite likely a > part of that. Certainly 2D, but I don't know about 3D. Any games are likely > under Winblows for my kids (until I find out about Descent under Linux.. ;-) -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
