Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:30:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the best-supported video card these days? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903091703160.6368@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <49B59345.30702@aldan.algebra.com> References: <49B59345.30702@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Mikhail T. wrote: > I'm looking to replace my "ATI Radeon NG R300 FireGL X1" because it seems to > be overheating once in a while forcing me to reboot. > > What's the best-supported card? My requirements/preferences are: > > 1. AGP. > 2. Dual DVI with at least 1600x1200 support (on each port). > 3. Working with amd64 (hence NVidia is out). > 4. Good 2D performance -- most important. > 5. Ok 3D performance -- no need to beat any benchmark, but OpenGL > screensaver should be smooth. > 6. Supported by FreeBSD and Xorg, of course. > > Do such things exist? Thanks for any ideas! Yours, There are AGP versions of the X1650 and X1950. They're relatively expensive and usually come with VGA/DVI. Don't know about dual 1600x1200 or amd64. The X1650 I'm using right now is PCIE. Cheap, dual-DVI, 2D, 3D. It's almost perfect. "Almost" meaning that a few times an hour, it blinks a single frame of the magnified upper left corner of the screen. Maybe just this card, but it sounds like this: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14609 If anyone else using an X1650 on FreeBSD has seen the blink, they haven't mentioned it. Oh, and there's a bug that causes the "skytentacles" screensaver shows tentacles in purple, not green. I think all my Radeons do that, but haven't cared enough to track it down. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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