From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 7 3:44:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DA237B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 03:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D97443E09 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 03:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 13324 invoked by uid 417); 7 Jul 2002 10:44:44 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2002 10:44:44 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.4.69]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sun, 07 Jul 2002 04:44:43 -0600 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:43:02 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Jason Porter 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> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:13:20 -0600 Jason Porter 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