From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 13:42:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D571065674 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17B08FC16 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from max.local (rrcs-74-218-226-253.se.biz.rr.com [74.218.226.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m88DgS1r036328; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:42:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jan+freebsd@g-b.dk Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:43:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <14959.195.212.29.92.1220878670.squirrel@webmail.g-b.dk> In-Reply-To: <14959.195.212.29.92.1220878670.squirrel@webmail.g-b.dk> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809080943.27140.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:42:35 -0000 On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote: > I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem > is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, > or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these > nowadays? This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information in a couple of relatively recent threads. The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this: nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. Not available on amd64 ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). The manpage has a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards ("hd", etc) is coming but not quite all the way there intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but modern onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost anything, including many games. Personally I would look for Intel gfx in a laptop and a well-supported ATI card for a desktop. > I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, > desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the > occasional BZFlag (call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect > my options for motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will > affect my choice of CPU, and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental > question, but I can't find an authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD. JN