From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:30:19 -0400
From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf.toronto.edu
Subject: No subject
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Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>:
> Speaking of vga, what card do people recommend?  

according to "APPENDIX - What We Use - Last Updated 1-Aug-95"
at url http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/clone.html :

Subjectively, the Tseng Labs ET4000/W32p gives the best performance under
Plan 9, its only drawbacks being the lack of a hardware cursor in 2x8bit mode
and a maximum pixel-clock of 135MHz when used with a suitable RAMDAC.
The Hercules Stingray 64/Video with the ARK2000pv chip looks good too and
doesn't have restrictions on the use of the hardware cursor. Unfortunately we
have't been able to get the hardware cursor to work satisfactorily under Plan 9.
Don't know why, haven't had time to investigate. 

There are a number of cards out there using the S3 Trio64 chip, they're cheap
and perform well; the single-chip solution cuts out a lot of the guesswork in
getting the card to work.