I'm going to design and build an X terminal

[jpero at sympatico.ca]

> Now there is only one thing remaining for which I seek advice from the great
> collective wisdom here: what should I use for the video chip?  Being the
> recluse that I am, I know virtually nothing about modern video technology.
> Out of modern, readily-available PCI video chips, what do you think would
> be the most appropriate for a reasonable XFree86 server?  As a ballpark
> I'm looking for 24 bits per pixel colour (I don't want to be limited by
> the colour map) and a resolution comparable to DEC's best offerings at
> tne height of the VAXstation era.  It would have to be PCI; whether I go
> with the MPC8250 CPU or something else, it'll definitely have PCI but
> not AGP.
> 
> I would appreciate any advice.
> 
> MS

Matrox,  still sells PCI bus video chipset and supported by 
linux/XFree86 keep in mind they forked so there is two kind of X.

Also look into ATi.

Cheers,

Wizard