Re: best cheap 1024x768x8bit card

[Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>]

Frankly, and no offense, but the hardware compatibility list, especially
when it comes to vidcards, is a load of BS.  I've now gone through 4
different 4 meg video cards trying to get 1024x768 in 24bit, I know just
a whole world more than I ever wanted to know about XF86Config
modelines, and after 6 months of fighting with this (off and on
honestly, X isn't that important to me) I think it MAY not mosaic on me
now as of 2 days ago with my "Creative Labs VideoBlaster 3D" (what can I
say, 4 megs for $70)

In short, a nice lil addendum as to what video cards have been tried at
what resolutions and worked without 6 months of hacking would be great
:)  

Anyone want to post what vidcard they're using?  I'll pop it up on a
webpage for all to see.

One other caveat...  Monitors, aside from $700 15" monitors like the
multisync, I haven't even seen the other monitors on the list and I've
looked...  And even my Princeton doesn't come with hsync and vsync data
like X requires.

Well thanks for the time,

--alex



Robert Rowe wrote:
> 
> The Red Hat hardware compatibility list on their web site defines a lot of
> cards in a whole range of prices and capabilities.
> 
> At 07:14 AM 10/8/98 -0600, Paul Wheaton wrote:
> >It is obvious to me now that this will be much easier if I just get a
> >new card.
> >
> >All I want is 1024x768 and 256 colors.  One meg of memory.  PCI bus.
> >Which card do I buy?
> >
> >I errantly thought that a Trident chip card is the way to go, but I'm
> >learning far more about Linux video stuff than I ever wanted to know.
> >Plus, I have 20 other people around me who are thinking of trying Linux
> >and they are now thinking Linux sucks.  If I can just plug in the right
> >card and have everything running in two minutes I can blame the previous
> >card.
> >
> >So please, what's a cheap card that will work right away?
> >
> >
> >--