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Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD
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Matthias Buelow wrote:

> The newer cards work very well.  I have a X800se PCI-Express card and 
> it works like a charm with X.org 6.8.1 on 5.3.  The only thing that's 
> missing in the newer Radeons under Xorg/XFree is 3d acceleration 
> (which the OP might or might not need on FreeBSD, since it's mostly 
> only useful for games, anyways).
>
Isn't that pretty expencive for 2d use?