From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 11 21:33:51 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 483E937B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (smtp-3b.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8370243E4A for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.pole@paradise.net.nz) Received: from 203-79-103-110.tnt14.paradise.net.nz (203-79-103-110.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.103.110]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5401CAE200; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:33:46 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Re: which video cards work best for stable From: James Pole To: Kevin Oberman Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030112045232.A73BA5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030112045232.A73BA5D04@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1042349628.35519.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 12 Jan 2003 18:33:48 +1300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 17:52, Kevin Oberman wrote: > This is more an XFree86 issue than a FreeBSD issue > (XFree86@xfree86.org). Also, look at XFree86's website: http://www.xfree86.org/. XFree86 has excellent 2D drivers for almost all the video cards and chipsets made in the 1990's and many recent cards/chipsets (including 2D-only drivers for NVIDIA's video chipsets right up to the more recent GeForce4 and most ATI chipsets). However hardware 3D rendering/acceleration is usually provided via binary drivers from the vendor (eg NVIDIA and probably a few other companies) or via an open-source driver from the DRI sourceforge project (http://dri.sf.net/). Information on the FreeBSD port of DRI can be found at this url: http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/. >From that page it looks like cards with chipsets made by either Matrox and ATI Radeon (including 8500 and older models) are supported under FreeBSD. However I would like any DRI users to contribute more information on how stable/useful DRI is under Windows with ATI cards since I have never used DRI myself. NVIDIA provides official binary drivers for FreeBSD, but they create problems for many users. Have a look around the mailing list archivers and google around and you'll see that plenty of people have problems with the FreeBSD/NVIDIA driver. Myself included. There are some more information on NVIDIA cards on these websites:- http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ http://www.thirteenandtwo.org/nvidia/faq.html - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: james.pole@paradise.net.nz SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message