From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 8 09:45:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97214801 for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 09:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com (mail-la0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257851E3 for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 09:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id fh20so1537462lab.20 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 02:45:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=g2+R2mFcerCzrFygyH0Pz/Ho6xvfBcbhpHdA0BC5ars=; b=x30tcA2ts7cdmCVi9yikD1NzbwYDhxSSvysA1sYN5w29RmOmnLAqu9N11ogmD22tVk NkmTh+kjxe7wJGzfsvXmFcfi8ZTlFZj6gIT9o0XEsxkqLhwVfNx8vOyYns+UfDH54gip FG/Pf2hEO7eEepi7MEWHHojajk+Nn7tBwA2BiB9uIZDsNkgDjU7Fl9WRfviBVmACfvvd +aQUTxEeM/w81naYGZjP87a2hgQBvUfPbWdtj/1ou25LwwneGgvGmTx+WQWB9ELBoJ60 RXSO8SHvyzlHGwgRSfwDEDusUptkpV79TUb3I+BPq6QJFkPlxoIJ8CpmDtiIHk26P91i MMsQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.121.105 with SMTP id lj9mr2757139lab.6.1368006306912; Wed, 08 May 2013 02:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.202.137 with HTTP; Wed, 8 May 2013 02:45:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <23361.1367959126@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <23361.1367959126@server1.tristatelogic.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 10:45:06 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Status of ATI video acceleration support + freebsd port code From: Tom Evans To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 09:45:09 -0000 On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > For the desktop however (and I'm sure that saying this here will probably > result in my public stoning), as I have learned only slowy and painfully, > it actually kinda sucks. As we have been discussing, _full_ support for > video chips from two of the three biggest suppliers of such things, AMD > and Nvidia, doesn't exist, even for some cards already considered to be > obsolete, such as the Radeon HD 5450 which, I gather, was introduced way > back in 2011. Nvidia cards are fully supported; the only feature currently not present in the proprietary driver is Optimus. Yes, it is a proprietary and closed source driver, but more importantly, it just works. X works, DRI works, 2D acceleration works, xv works, opengl works, xrandr works, vdpau (video offload) works. Save yourself pain and time and just go with nvidia. Cheers Tom