Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:47:56 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "question@freebsd.org" <question@freebsd.org>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: In search of a video card Message-ID: <6FBF1838-3CB3-41EC-9178-0993EAE3AB84@mired.org> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660905132242yff175a6idd1d322aa95d30a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514000203.3d053800@bhuda.mired.org> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> <d763ac660905132242yff175a6idd1d322aa95d30a7@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 14, 2009, at 1:42, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>:
>
>> I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will
>> handle
>> WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as
>> the flesh
>> tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy.
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. I guess I'm going to make a trip to Fry's
>> Friday.
>
> I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu
> and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow it
> Is.
Well, the stock Ubuntu desktop is Gnome, which I find sluggish and
horribly slow on amd64 hardware even with Nvidias 2d & 3d acceleration
at any size above 1024x768 - at least in it's default config.
If all depends on your window manager, config and expectations.
<mike
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