From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 02:07:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3EF16A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.202.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D48B43D53 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@comcast.net) Received: from smogmonster.local (pcp0010916331pcs.albqrq01.nm.comcast.net[68.35.114.183]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005102702012901400jcqvle>; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:01:34 +0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:01:23 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053D7C@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053D7C@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510262001.26982.krinklyfig@comcast.net> Cc: Micah , Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:07:14 -0000 On Wed 26 Oct 05 18:17, "Murray Taylor" wrote: > I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports > it. > >   I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine, > even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. > > HTH, > Micah > > > Thanks Micah, > > Gawd... > Instead of saying what the supplier is suggesting, maybe I should > turn it about and ask for suggestions re graphics cards that people > are using that have proven support and capabilities under my proposed > os/hardware platform choice ..... > > So --- > What are you using ?? Actually, I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600XT. It's supported, but just in the basic sense. I don't have hardware acceleration or 3D at all, but I don't necessarily need it for FreeBSD. The main reason I got the card in the first place is to play games on Windoze, which is the only reason I use that OS anymore. As a dual boot it works fine, if a bit sluggish on the FreeBSD desktop side (a gig of RAM helps). Having said that, my next plan is to separate the two so that I have a game machine and a workstation running FreeBSD, along with a dedicated server for DNS/mail/spam filtering. When I do that, I'll probably get a halfway decent NVidia card for the workstation and keep the ATI for Windoze. Then to upgrade the game machine ... but I get ahead of myself ... - jt