[lug] Good 2D video card

[Gary Hodges]

A follow-up for those interested folks...

I emailed pre-sales Accelerated-X tech support to see if their product
supports AGP cards with AMD761 chipset motherboards.  One of their tech
reps, Paul, was very helpful.  Turns out they had the exact motherboard I
am considering (GigaByte GA-7DX) as well as several of the video cards I
had mentioned in my email - Matrox G450, G400 and an ATI Radeon card.  Here
is his reply/results:

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Gary,
I just tested the GigaByte motherboard with the G450, G400 and the Radeon
VE.

I used our 6.0.1 Accelerated X 2D server and it worked great.  I was using
an
AMD 1.2 gig processor and 128 mb of memory.  I used a 2.2.x kernel and
slackware 7.0.  The only thing I noticed was that our XSVC 2.0.x  versions
will cause a hard lock.  I then used our XSVC -1.5-9 and it worked fine.
We use XSVC with
our 3 D server, so this might not even matter...
We are currently working on an Alpha 3D Xserver and all those cards will be

included
in the support list.. that Alpha is available for download and testing via
our website.
I hope this in info helps you,
If you have any more questions, please
get back to me..
thanks\
Paul
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So, it looks like I have an out with Accelerated-X if I can't get the
"official" Matrox drivers to work.  Actually, with the help I received from
xig, I should probably just go ahead and buy Accelerated-X!

Cheers,
Gary

Gary Hodges wrote:

> I'm going to be piecing together a PC for work in the coming weeks, and
> I'm trying to decide on a video card for 2D work.  The monitor I'm
> buying is capable of 2048x1536 at 75Hz, though I'll likely run it at the
> advertised "optimum" resolution of 1600x1200 @85Hz.  I've spent hours
> reading newsgroup postings via google, and it looks like the Matrox G400
> w/16 MB RAM is what I want.  I'll more than likely install the newest
> Red Hat dist., and having the card work "out-of-the-box" is very
> important to me.  The ATI Radeon cards seem like a good choice also, but
> I've been seeing newsgroup postings about incompatibility problems with
> AMD 761 chipsets.  BTW, I "think" I've settled on the GigaByte GA-7DX MB
> w/AMD 1.4 266FSB.  Another MB I was looking at is the Asus A7M266, but
> there seem to be issues with that board and ECC RAM.