
6. Video cards
Please note that this section is currently being updated, so some information may not be entirely correct or
complete.
Linux will work with all video cards in text mode, VGA cards not listed below probably will still work with
mono VGA and/or standard VGA drivers.
If you're looking into buying a cheap video card to run X, keep in mind that accelerated cards (ATI Mach,
ET4000/W32p, S3) are MUCH faster than unaccelerated or partially accelerated (Cirrus, WD) cards.
"32 bpp" is actually 24 bit color aligned on 32 bit boundaries. It does NOT mean the cards are capable of 32
bit color, they still display 24 bit color (16,777,216 colors). 24 bit packed pixels modes are not supported in
XFree86, so cards that can do 24 bit modes to get higher resolutions in other OS's are not able to do this in X
using XFree86. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3 801/805/868/968, ET4000, and others.
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) support is growing fast. Most of the X−servers (both freely available and
proprietary versions) have more or less support for AGP.
6.1. XFree86
The following is a list of cards known to work with XFree86 versions 3.3.6 and/or 4.1.0. See the XFree86 web
site for more information.
Card Name Chipset XFree86 3.3.x
server
XFree86 4.x
driver
Notes
2 the Max MAXColor S3 Trio64V+ S3 Trio64V+ XF86_S3 s3
2−the−Max MAXColor 6000 ET6300 XF86_SVGA tseng
3DLabs Oxygen GMX PERMEDIA 2 XF86_3DLabs glint
3DVision−i740 AGP Intel 740 XF86_SVGA i740
3Dlabs Permedia2 (generic) PERMEDIA 2 XF86_3DLabs glint
928Movie S3 928 XF86_S3 vga
ABIT G740 8MB SDRAM Intel 740 XF86_SVGA i740
AGP 2D/3D V. 1N, AGP−740D Intel 740 XF86_SVGA i740
AGX (generic) AGX−014/15/16 XF86_AGX vga
ALG−5434(E) CL−GD5434 XF86_SVGA cirrus
AOpen AGP 2X 3D Navigator PA740 Intel 740 XF86_SVGA i740
AOpen PA2010 Banshee tdfx
AOpen PA45 SiS6326 XF86_SVGA sis
AOpen PA50D SiS6326 XF86_SVGA sis
AOpen PA50E SiS6326 XF86_SVGA sis
AOpen PA50V SiS6326 XF86_SVGA sis
AOpen PA80/DVD SiS6326 XF86_SVGA sis
AOpen PG128 S3 Trio3D XF86_SVGA s3virge
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