Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:35:49 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: suggested xorg-compatible video HW for FreeBSD/amd64 ? Message-ID: <CAFHbX1JG9BXmzwLtO7nunpPbbC8zuANzKCK9u=JBD6A09M8OLA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOgwaMuZ93RxoTPya97y0cEdEWZzKs3U5B45s3vUWcH0Wy0Y6A@mail.gmail.com> References: <20111128092008.GA58668@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <CAOgwaMuZ93RxoTPya97y0cEdEWZzKs3U5B45s3vUWcH0Wy0Y6A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote: > After reading many mails , and some documents , I have decided to buy the > following > hardware > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFX > http://xfxforce.com/en-us/Products/Graphics-Cards/ATI/ATI-Radeon-HD-4000-= Series/ATI-Radeon-HD-4670.aspx > > > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/= desktop-board-dp67de.html > > to perform the following tasks : > > - To attach two monitors to the video card . > - To modify / improve FreeBSD / Xorg sources to divert ( serial console , > stdout , stderr ) outputs to one of the monitors =C2=A0, and the rest int= o the > other monitor . > > > Reasons to select the hardware : > > > - I think Intel boards are more reliable , more suitable for Unix from th= e > other brands within > very limited budget , > > - ATI Radeon has more information sources than Nvidia with respect to ope= n > source software . There is no any documentation about Nvidia chipsets ( o= r > I could NOT find ) . > So, I would always recommend nvidia, using the closed source binary drivers from nvidia. I've used these drivers with all sorts of nvidia cards, and everything - 2D acceleration, OpenGL, multiple monitors, video decode acceleration - has always worked perfectly. nvidia actually develop the driver, and there are frequent releases. New cards are supported as soon as they are released. Here is a list of supported devices from the latest driver release: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/290.10/README/supporte= dchips.html Cheers Tom
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