From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 19:28:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2797710656A6 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 19:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B28828FC1D for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 45341 invoked by uid 2001); 14 May 2009 19:02:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:02:13 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20090514190213.GC45111@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com> <200905141610.15344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905141610.15344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In search of a video card X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:28:55 -0000 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:10:07PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Depends how unaccelerated it is. > > VESA is pretty damn slow, but even minimal radeon/radeonhd support is > fast enough for desktop use. VESA doesn't support dual-head, if that's something you're looking for. And I agree that it's particularly slow even in 2d. -- Rick C. Petty