Re: tlug: What are your favorite video cards for Linux?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
> 
>  > The STB Velocity 128 or Diamond Viper V330 (the Riva128 cards) are what
>  > I'd pick (I did, actually).  I can get you the Diamond card for $139, it
>  > comes with 4MB ram, it doesn't need 8mb (the Riva chip is optimized for
>  > 4mb, no more, no less - 8mb would be wasteful overkill, according to
>  > nVidia).  Fastest 2D card in the world, among the top 10 in 3D, and it
>  > does hardware mpeg at something like 50-60fps in 1152x900 full screen on
>  > my K6-200.
> That`s not under Linux (the mpeg) or is it. :)

haven't tried the mpeg under Linux, actually.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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