Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:07 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: question@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Subject: Re: In search of a video card Message-ID: <200905141610.15344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660905132242yff175a6idd1d322aa95d30a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> <d763ac660905132242yff175a6idd1d322aa95d30a7@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1318273.vxGJtxcTYF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 14 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>: > > 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. Depends how unaccelerated it is. VESA is pretty damn slow, but even minimal radeon/radeonhd support is=20 fast enough for desktop use. > 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.. If you have a fast CPU & decent pipe to video memory it isn't necessary,=20 but very nice. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1318273.vxGJtxcTYF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKC7zP5ZPcIHs/zowRAoaFAKCCtdj55kz4pmZ8V3Oyrilpi9WyaQCfU9jx 8UWur6KSfXfIpb5WCIeyD1c= =tout -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1318273.vxGJtxcTYF--
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