From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 15:31:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6186A16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chatcanada.net (d199-126-144-193.abhsia.telus.net [199.126.144.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BDD343D68 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 11:58:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@chatcanada.net) Received: (qmail 24547 invoked from network); 18 May 2004 18:56:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.chatcanada.net) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.2 with SMTP; 18 May 2004 18:56:26 -0000 Received: from 199.126.144.193 (SquirrelMail authenticated user darren) by mail.chatcanada.net with HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2004 12:56:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <60322.199.126.144.193.1084906586.squirrel@mail.chatcanada.net> In-Reply-To: <1084851780.61512.22.camel@nothing.plesk.ru> References: <20040518012922.IPHP7895.lakermmtao10.cox.net@smtp.central.cox.net> <1084851780.61512.22.camel@nothing.plesk.ru> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:56:26 -0600 (MDT) From: darren@chatcanada.net To: kpisman@sw-soft.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best video card for bsds X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:31:20 -0000 I've always had an nvidia card with my bsd, I use the 'nv' driver and not nvidia's driver as it is experimental and without updates. I generally leave my display running and swap in and out of text mode without any problems. I've never had a crash because of video except when using nvidia's own driver, which is simple to fix, telnet in, find the .X0-lock file, cat it, kill the pid. -Darren >> I wanted some thoughts on what is the best video card out for freebsd. >> Not just the hardware but who supports freebsd the best by providing >> the best drivers. thx in advance > > i think that ATI RADEON's is what are you looking for.nVidia drivers > are just ugly .With hardware accelerated 'nvidia' driver i wasn't had > uptime more than 10-15 days on my desktop. (5.2.1 at a moment) and > uptime is just a six days. Only one source of hardware failures - my > geForce 2 mx 400 by asus. > > Now my other system is Fedora Core (i need linux ) and it's work with > X's native 'radeon' X server (card is powercolor redeon 9200 ce ). It is > fast enought, and it's stable enought. I think that X is the same on > fedora and BSD's. > > wbr Kirill > >