From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 7:34:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6732837B41C for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 07:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26653; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:34:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20867; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:34:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20863; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:34:27 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:34:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Ceri Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video card support question In-Reply-To: <20011227135616.GA10078@rhadamanth> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all, > > I've currently got a Voodoo 5 PCI card and, since I seem to have some > cash to burn after Christmas, am going to buy a new card for my main > system and move the Voodoo 5 into the old Pii system. > > Dilemma starts here : > > Do either of these cards have support in XFree86-4 ? > > 1) Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro 2. > > Preferred option since my hardware guru says it's better. > Also, I'm sure there are problems with support for the : > > 2) Nvidia GeForce 2 MX-400 64MB AGP > > hence, the FreeBSD Nvidia project. > > Does anyone know for sure if either of these will work ? > And if they both do, which one kicks most ass (obviously, I intend to > use this for Windows games as well). I'd suggest the Nvidia card. It has full 2d support in FreeBSD, and after the new year, I have word that nvidia will be compiling a native version of their GL libs for FreeBSD, (the 2d portion of the nvidia driver already works). After FreeBSD gets 3d (GL) support from Nvidia, several linux games will work such as QIII, Tribes 2, etc... as well as several other 3d games that are windows only (under wine). Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message