From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 10:48:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6631065673 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311688FC0C for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1302B1905E; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:48:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [10.0.10.11] (tau.demon.co.uk [80.177.26.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:48:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4902F962.7090604@cran.org.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:48:02 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <20081025074858.GA17098@logik.internal.network> <20081025101635.C30043@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081025082338.GA67346@logik.internal.network> <20081025104350.M31848@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081025104350.M31848@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xorquewasp@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the age old 3D hardware question 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: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:48:19 -0000 > > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, xorquewasp@googlemail.com wrote: > >> On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>> I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in >>>> 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options >>>> for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite >>>> minimal, >>>> I'm not running any games. >>> >>> you actually need 3D accelerator or just fast 2D card? >>> >>> if second - buy for <<50$ (or get for free) used computer, lowest end >>> pentium will suffice, plug good PCI graphics in it, and make an X >>> terminal >>> to connect to your high-speed computer. >>> >>> there is one more adventage of it - you may connect more than one :) >> >> Unfortunately, yeah, I do need 3D acceleration. I'm not running any >> games >> but I am doing some OpenGL development (should've said that in the first >> place, really). Wojciech Puchar wrote: > afaik openGL always requires local display I would guess the development and testing will be done on the same machine. -- Bruce