Re: Compatible graphic card

[Jon_norstog <thursday@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:36 -0500, heviarti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   I'm happy to hear the Radeon cards work. I've only had one very old
> Chinese made mach64 work in an alpha.. every other ATI I tried was a
> no-go, even some of the newer mach64s.
> 
>  Of course there has been some wierdness of late with the S3. I don't know
> why support has failed in recent years, seeing as S3 are stock on server
> 3300s.
> 
>   Diamond FireGL cards have been a source of bad luck. Neither the 1000 or
> the 3000 seems to work well for me. The 3000 seems to give me a console
> lock when i use anything linked against GTK, and artifacts very badly. 
> the 1000? that's *really* bad. X starts.. and then i've got a console
> lock.  Haven't tried the matrox, but I understand they work. Ark logic
> cards seemed to work for me (until it cooked the expansion memory)
> 
>  There are quite a few I haven't tried. It seems almost every PCI card I
> get ends up being either an S3, or an ATI.
> 
> _

Dear heviarti & list:

I have had mixed results with the Diamond Fire 1000, it *looks* like an
ELsa Gloria and has a Permedia 2 chip, but sometimes it just doesn't
work.  Like with the AC 3 graphic installer.

I still like the 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1.  It is a 32M card, but has much
better picture quality than the Radeon.  And it seems more compatible
with graphic install.

good luck

jn