Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:17:22 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: eric@hollar.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Video card hardware for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3D0AB1C2.A049CEA9@pantherdragon.org> References: <20020614175849.26259.h009.c000.wm@mail.hollar.com.criticalpath.net>
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eric@hollar.com wrote: > > Hello, > > The 200 MHz Pentium box that I'm using to experiment with FreeBSD just doesn't > quite cut it for a graphical workstation. I'm feel I am going to get serious > enough with FreeBSD that I'm considering the purchase of a GHz class Duron and > mobo. (The P200 will be the firewall someday...) > > But what video card should I choose? The list of cards provided at the XFree86 > site doesn't have many that are too up to date (or even still available new). Is > AGP supported? Where did you look for XF86 card support info? Below are some snippets from the v4.2.0 release doc. "Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips by the "ati" driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips." "Support (accelerated) for the MGA2064W (Millennium I), MGA1064SG (Mystique), MGA2164W (Millennium II) (PCI and AGP), G100, G200, G400, G450, and G550 is provided by the "mga" driver." "Support (accelerated) for the Riva 128, 128ZX, TNT, TNT2 (Ultra, Vanta, M64), GeForce (DDR, 256), Quadro, GeForce2 (GTS, Ultra, MX), GeForce3, and Quadro2 is provided by the "nv" driver." That covers pretty much all of the current common "high-end" cards. My roomate has an ATI Radeon 7200 32MB DDR working in v4.1.0 using AGP 4x mode under Linux. I myself have run an AGP Matrox G200 using v4.0.x under FreeBSD without problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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