From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 20:01:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE7F16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E96F43D39 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id CBBCC2D5; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:14:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from hachigo (hachigo [66.92.171.91]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:14:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20040311231414.ph8g8g4scwk0ck48@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:14:14 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: Jason References: <40511E5D.5000607@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <40511E5D.5000607@ec.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "Ralph M. Los" cc: Osmany Guirola Cruz Subject: Re: NVIDIA or ATI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:01:46 -0000 Quoting Jason : > Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > >> I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux >> and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and >> FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new >> machine and I need to decide between a ATI or a NVIDIA card for my box >> and I need to have 3D ACCELERATION. Which should be my choice. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > If we get xfree 4.4 imported there is support for all the new ati and > nvidia cards(I think all nvidia, I know all ati). Ati has had the speed > crown since the 9500 or 9700 came out, but I heard nvidia will be > reclaiming it in a few months. I would recommend the ati for 3d work, > but not on an nforce board. If you plan to get an nforce board you have > to get an nvidia card untill there is an updated driver for the nforce > boards. If anyone knows different about ati on nforce boards please let > me know. > XFree86 4.4 STILL won't support 3d on the cards you list above. You need drivers from ATI or nVidia to do that, and right now nVidia is the only company releasing drivers for FreeBSD. Ken