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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:59:29 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Low end video card that won't crash server ... ?
Message-ID:  <20070622055929.GH8955@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <467B3DF6.5080704@u.washington.edu>
References:  <3C7F787C8D3D4F70B80BBA44@ganymede.hub.org> <467B3DF6.5080704@u.washington.edu>

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:11:50PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Garrett Cooper, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Intel's still your best bet, with nVidia in second, and ATI in
> third.
> 
> You aren't going to get proper 3D support unless you switch to Linux
> unfortunately :(..

I still love my Matrox.  But even there, you're stuck with the 550 and
older if you want open drivers, which is, what, like 6+ years at this
point?  Rather unpleasantly expensive new, but you can find 'em
reasonable on eBay.  Not too shiny if you need much 3d, but they're
unbeatable on 2d.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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