From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 00:44:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72A816A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:44:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CFAD43D55 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD9E687E3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.230.135.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0154D2D66; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:39:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AA70E3.2000108@mukappabeta.de> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:44:19 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pertti Kosunen References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <87zn15zoqo.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <41A63A78.2030506@mukappabeta.de> <41A9CC27.3030408@saunalahti.fi> In-Reply-To: <41A9CC27.3030408@saunalahti.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:44:24 -0000 Pertti Kosunen wrote: >> The newer cards work very well. I have a X800se PCI-Express card and >> it works like a charm with X.org 6.8.1 on 5.3. The only thing that's >> > Isn't that pretty expencive for 2d use? Yes.. that's why I also have Windows installed for a game every now and then. I just wanted to point out that the current generation Radeons do, in contrast to what has been claimed before, actually work with the current Xorg release (which unfortunately hasn't arrived in ports yet, as it seems, but is available via patchsets from the ports maintainer). With "work", I mean, solid 2d performance (supported by the radeon driver, not Vesa). I see 3d support as a nice add-on but not as the core functionality. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de