From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 18:20:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C6B16A468 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:20:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1CC13C516 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 18719 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2007 18:20:27 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Nov 2007 18:20:27 -0000 Message-ID: <473DDF1D.8050109@chuckr.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:19:09 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: ATI graphics? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:20:35 -0000 Looks like the amd machine I have to bring back to life has a bum video card, so I'm forced to get a new one. It probably doesn't matter, but the Mobo is a Tyan S2875 K8W dual Opteron board. I have a soft spot for ATI boards, so I would like to see what is the latest Radeom board that works with FreeBSD-current on AMD64's. I was doing some reading, and I found a hint that the R300 was the fastest board architecture, but I'm not too sure I trust where I saw that, so i wanted to verify it. The latest R300 card I could find was a 9700, and I found one on sale at $127, so there's all the stuff I have been able to find. If I've made any mistakes in this, g'wan and tell me, please, I need to get this board pretty soon now. The new machine's going to be pretty nice, once I get it going. Thanks!