From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 12:43:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEF816A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:43:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from laas.laas.fr (laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA4743D39 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:43:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from l1@npf.deec.uc.pt) Received: by laas.laas.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iATChZdw029904; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:43:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AB1977.3090101@npf.pt.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:43:35 +0100 From: Paulo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Buelow References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <87zn15zoqo.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <41A63A78.2030506@mukappabeta.de> <41A9CC27.3030408@saunalahti.fi> <41AA70E3.2000108@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <41AA70E3.2000108@mukappabeta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS cc: Pertti Kosunen cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:43:42 -0000 Matthias Buelow wrote: > Yes.. that's why I also have Windows installed for a game every now > and then. I just wanted to point out that the current generation > Radeons do, in contrast to what has been claimed before, actually work > with the current Xorg release (which unfortunately hasn't arrived in > ports yet, as it seems, but is available via patchsets from the ports > maintainer). With "work", I mean, solid 2d performance (supported by > the radeon driver, not Vesa). I see 3d support as a nice add-on but > not as the core functionality. > You are forgetting that there are many people that really need fast 3D graphics. In the place I work there are people working on computer animation, 3D models visualization on linux, solaris and freebsd. All this is being developed in opengl (as raytracing are just for final work purposes) so we need very fast 3D graphics. So please add *solid 3D graphics performance* to you definition of "work". Paulo