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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Dave {Reply Address in.sig} wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:15:38 +0100, Chris Priest wrote:
> 
>>Hi Groups,
>>
>>I want to upgrade my video card on a non-AGP MB (ASUS TX97LE) and can't
>>seem to find a Matrox G200 PCI anymore. I guess I waited too long. The
>>choice I seem to have is between a generic board with an S3 VIRGE/DX 4MB
>>and a VideoLogic GraphixStar 600 4MB (Tseng ET6000). Any suggestions as
>>to which is the better card, or other suggestions for good boards that
>>run on Linux and OS/2 please?
>>
>Yes, the G200 PCI is obsolete. That's what finally made me go and buy a
>new motherboard (and a new, faster processor) so I could have a
>motherboad with an AGP slot. I had the choice between the G200 and G400
>but as I got a good deal on a G200 AGP I went for it :-)
>
>I used to have an S3 VIRGE 4MB and it never gave any real problems
>here. Can't rate it speed-wise because I never had anything else
>similar for comparison. 

I'm using an ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP video card (XPERT98 I think). It works
well for me and is supported in X (Mach64 driver). It's a far better card
than my old one (Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI) which I've since sold...

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