From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 07:08:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE00106566C; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:08:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403DB8FC12; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4E6eH9n098289 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:07 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1318273.vxGJtxcTYF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905141610.15344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.499 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: question@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd , hackers@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 07:08:03 -0000 --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 : > > 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--