Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:43:02 -0400 From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> To: Jason Porter <leporter@xmission.com> Cc: duhring@charter.net, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Better to make XFree86-4 when XFree86-3 isn't running? Message-ID: <20020707064302.6b80d2aa.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D27CDF0.5020108@xmission.com> References: <3D27CB01.1000504@xmission.com> <200207070009.06225.duhring@charter.net> <3D27CDF0.5020108@xmission.com>
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On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:13:20 -0600 Jason Porter <leporter@xmission.com> wrote: > Nope, right now I have an S3 Savage200 (piece of junk card if you ask > me). In about a week I'll be getting an nVidia GeForce3. Although nVidia will work, due to their accelerated driver being binary-only and written for Linux, you can't take advantage of hardware acceleration on an nVidia card at present under BSD. You may be better off with a new ATI or Matrox card, which have drivers that come with XFree86 4.x (A new ATI card has probably the best speed amongst the open-source driver'd cards.) BTW, I've moved the mailing list to freebsd-hardware as this really isn't a freebsd-stable issue. (Except concerning awareness of the problem, and the -stable and -current teams are aware of it and are working on an eventual fix.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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