From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 18:10:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14ED316A41F for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:10:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@albsmeier.net) Received: from outside.albsmeier.net (outside.albsmeier.net [80.81.31.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753D743D79 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:10:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@albsmeier.net) Received: from schlappy.albsmeier.net (dpc6935112083.direcpc.com [69.35.112.83]) (authenticated bits=128) by outside.albsmeier.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBGI9rZH026158; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:10:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andre@albsmeier.net) Received: from schlappy.albsmeier.net (schlappy.albsmeier.net [127.0.0.1]) by schlappy.albsmeier.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBGI9QiI001471; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:09:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andre@schlappy.albsmeier.net) Received: (from andre@localhost) by schlappy.albsmeier.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jBGI9Qn0001470; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:09:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andre) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:09:25 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Sascha Klauder Message-ID: <20051216180925.GA1436@schlappy.albsmeier.net> References: <20051129180656.GA3619@node26.0xfce3.net> <20051129192653.GA35936@trimind.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051129192653.GA35936@trimind.de> X-Echelon: United, assault, VHF, Telex, AA X-Advice: Drop that crappy M$-Outlook, I'm tired of your viruses! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Gordon Bergling Subject: Re: [Recommendation] graphicscard (agp) for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:10:35 -0000 On Tue, 29-Nov-2005 at 20:26:53 +0100, Sascha Klauder wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:06:56PM +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > I am building a new workstation. Most hardware was just ordered, but I > > am still need a good supported graphicscard for FreeBSD. > > > > Can anyone recommend a graphicscard based on AGP, which should be > > support TV-Out. > > That heavily depends on what you want to do with it. If you > just do 2D, DVD-playback and the like, I would recommend a > Matrox G450 or G550 card. They feature superb image quality, > are completely supported (TV-output worked when I last used That's highly interesting. I have never heard of anyone who was able to make a G450/550's TV-Out work under FreeBSD. The Matrox HAL doesn't support TV-Out for G450 and G550. A G400 works perfectly. On dsiplay :0.0 I use a regular CRT and :0.1 is mapped to TV-out. > one two years ago) and well documented, and even their OpenGL Well, may I ask you to send me the config file you used? Or instructions how you made it work? Did you hack the Matrox HAL (i tried to but failed :-()? Or did you use Linux? I know there are some hacks for Linux which require some kernel code we haven't got in FreeBSD... Thanks, -Andre > performance is sufficient for at least xscreensaver. > > If you need 3D/OpenGL performance, get an NVidia card. They > have native drivers (binary-only though), which are quite stable. > ATI Radeon cards are nice too, but I'd bad luck with DRI drivers > recently. > > Cheers, > -sascha