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Subject: Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
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On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:58, jason wrote:
> Kirk Strauser wrote:
> >I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and
> >really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the
> > RenderAccel option.  This machine has become glacially slow since some
> >as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally
> > like to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple
> > downgrading probably won't help.
> >
> >Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card?
>
> Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers?  All geforce series
> should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia
> releases there own closed source drivers.

Xorg doesn't even start on my GeForce FX 5700LE with the 
composite extension.