From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 06:10:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A5D1065675 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 06:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5638FC0A; Thu, 14 May 2009 06:10:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so2136002qyk.3 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 23:10:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hFOdcxt+VwWNC1dxaDkS0Kf0pnVnj+ql1kSYHpdTsO8=; b=EBamkHhSVPQPc64SbiPxnxTX0jIG6VWl4tZVHY7Ajg4CV9sa7nUGjpCG3iULAhaPxJ /6+x/i9SMen4xkO4KF/lqmiFV1fW/7cQGE3a21yVb0Oy7feZIAQ4iSamyp+1bDgh1KJT +/Fe/f+VVj0TvdVbdvZoO8bIRTVBXPUb7TqAw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=pbTqj1EZVlEojdALGTaQYEHzdr4ngGL0ISgjJNnQwYYCNJPp66C+3W4InVTp/1Y/DM Vc1LovztwlMq3wgCSknB6Yy+WxvskNI4KGE3sh6YrUrxhJYA/NvmthLP2Pj5+4gy3BHF QVYLy1cXa0hUZT+MAjJctCUJ9zs7xvcTCb3OA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.97.19 with SMTP id j19mr1458822qcn.54.1242279740425; Wed, 13 May 2009 22:42:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514000203.3d053800@bhuda.mired.org> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42:20 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8642bb55c9fa96f8 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, question@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer Subject: Re: In search of a video card X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:10:37 -0000 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch : > I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will handle > WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as the flesh > tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy. > > Thanks for the advice. I guess I'm going to make a trip to Fry's Friday. I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow it is. I gave up trying to get accelerated 3d + dualhead support on the card(s) I was using - apparently the hardware just didn't do a single viewport span across 2 1280x1024 screens :( (The max viewport width was 2048 pixels..) 2d acceleration may be a must for that kind of resolution.. YMMV (and obviously, please report back your findings!) adrian