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Date:      Thu, 14 May 2009 11:12:52 +0200
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>
Cc:        question@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: In search of a video card
Message-ID:  <20090514091252.GA4341@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com>
References:  <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com>

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
> 
> I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce
> 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home
> machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into
> X. It just hangs. I've been poking around and, based on what I read, some
> FreeBSD developers and Nvidia have gotten into a finger pointing contest as
> to what is the problem. Its all very nice but doesn't help me much.
> 
> So, can any one recommend a good video card? What I'm looking for is
> 
>   * Works with amd64 FreeBSD 7.2
>   * DVI 
>   * PCI-E x16
>   * 512 MB or more
>   * Not going to cost an arm and a leg

you can try nouveau driver in the meantime



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