From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 21:02:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BC616A4CE; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl439.iae.nl [212.61.63.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D8A43D46; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:02:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.71] (dual.digiware.nl [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3OL1jO1011168; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:01:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <426C0939.5060901@withagen.nl> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:01:45 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Teterin References: <200504241828.j3OISslg005103@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200504241828.j3OISslg005103@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: amd64@freebsd.org cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which video card for FreeBSD/amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:02:08 -0000 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'll, probably, give up on NVidia soon. The free "nv" driver does not > support two monitors on the same card, and the proprietory "nvidia" > driver does not support amd64. My attempts to get the Linux/amd64 driver > to work have so far yielded nothing but solid hangs of the system. > > Adding an older PCI (VGA) card to drive the second monitor was > disappointing -- the picture is of noticably poorer quality than over > DVI. > > Is there a decent AGP or PCI-X dual-DVI card out there, that offers > decent 1600x1200 picture on FreeBSD/amd64? 3D is not a requirement... I'm a happy camper with an ATI card with VGA and DVI output: none3@pci2:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x200217ee chip=0x41501002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' device = 'Radeon 9600 Series (V350)' class = display subclass = VGA none4@pci2:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x200317ee chip=0x41701002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' device = 'Radeon 9600 Series - Secondary' class = display it gives met 2*1280*1024. But I'm shure you can get it to do 1600x1200 as well. I'm just running 1280*1024 'cause the 17" LCD are native at that resolution. Xorg has some nice tricks to play multiple screens in a simple way. --WjW