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Subject: Re: recommended PCI-E video card?
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Igor Robul wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I'm planing to build AMD64 based workstation, and have one question:
> 
> which PCI-Express video card works best with X.org on freebsd-amd64 in
> x64 mode? 
> 
> AFAIK nVidia does not have binary drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64, so what
> opensource driver works best for X.org+FreeBSD+AMD64?

When I looked at this a couple of months ago, the answer was that 2D
works just fine, but there simply isn't any support for this
configuration for 3D acceleration.  Maybe that has changed recently.

Scott