I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it. The online manual is available at http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_manuals/older/home.cfm if you want to check out the specs. It's an old card, but it seems able to handle plenty of bandwidth (e.g., I'm doing [EMAIL PROTECTED] without any trouble), and Xfree86 supports it well. (According to the 3.3.6 documentation at http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/MGA.html, "This server is very well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers.") I assume it'd be pretty lame for 3D graphics and games, not that I'd know, but for text editing and such it's great.
I paid something like $35 at a local shop, but I've seen them on ebay for around $10.---jbf On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious > (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more > interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both > platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come. I want > to avoid the situation I'm in now. I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card > for which there is no X server in the Debian packages. I can get X servers > elsewhere but on exit they crash my system. > > At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury. I'd be grateful for any > advice, opinions, or caveats. > > AdTHANKSvance > Chris >
