From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 08:43:06 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 8AED716A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:43:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE1343D1F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 543A9269; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:55:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:55:28 -0500 Message-ID: <20040311115528.p44ks48sk8o8owog@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:55:28 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: Lucas Holt References: <6410842A-737A-11D8-90B6-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <6410842A-737A-11D8-90B6-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "Ralph M. Los" cc: Osmany Guirola Cruz 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 16:43:06 -0000 Quoting Lucas Holt : > 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. Well unless he wants a MODERN card. If he wants something like an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or an nVidia GeForce FX 5900, the ATI won't work at all with 3d acceleration, and the nVidia card won't work now, but will as soon as nVidia releases their latest drivers. It doesn't matter if it works with DRI or not, as long as there is 3d acceleration. As far as the 2 companys' track records go, ATI has shown no intentions of supporting FreeBSD, while nVidia has already released drivers for FreeBSD that include 3d acceleration. I'd suggest nVidia. Ken