From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 11 20:52:35 2003 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 4707B37B405 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEDC43F3F for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:52:32 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id A73BA5D04; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:52:32 -0800 (PST) To: Eriq Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which video cards work best for stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:52:56 EST." <200301110152.56369.eqe@cox.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:52:32 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20030112045232.A73BA5D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Eriq > Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:52:56 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > nvidia or ati, need to know what to build new system with. I am now > running a server w/ savage4 and it runs fine but next box I was > thinking ati as price per profomance seems good in 8500. But what do > you think. This is more an XFree86 issue than a FreeBSD issue (XFree86@xfree86.org). I have found ATi is supportive of the open-source community and results have been quite good. As of today and V4.2.1, all ATi cards except the 9500 and 9700 are supported in 2D. 3D is available for the 7500 and may be there of the 8500. Support for the newer ATi cards in in CVS and the 4.3 pre-release distros (4.2.99). 4.3 is expected out shortly. I have no experience with nVidia, but they do provide a binary FreeBSD driver for 3D support of their new cards. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message