From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 08:37:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D71C16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:37:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEC243D2D for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-68-249-142-218.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.249.142.218]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id i2BGbdPZ003504; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:37:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net: Host adsl-68-249-142-218.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.249.142.218] claimed to be [192.168.2.49] In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6410842A-737A-11D8-90B6-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:37:30 -0500 To: "Osmany Guirola Cruz" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) cc: "Ralph M. Los" cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA or ATI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:37:54 -0000 If you are going to run freebsd 5.2.1 there aren't a lot of hoops to get an ATI card to work, but some people have reported better frame rates and less graphical glitches with nVidia cards. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP in my PC and its working fine. I turned on glx and dri in X11. From my understanding, you don't need to mess with dri on nVidia cards? If the machine uses an nforce chipset, don't buy an ATI video card. Aside from that, either should work. On Mar 11, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux > and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and > FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new > machine and I need to decide between a ATI or a NVIDIA card for my box > and I need to have 3D ACCELERATION. Which should be my choice. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'I try to think but nothing happens' -- Homer Jay Simpson