Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:21:15 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: cokane@cokane.org Cc: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 Message-ID: <17725.20075.825546.292134@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <346a80220610231612o2bc29336id0d4e9795715b7ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <200610232037.UAA26566@sopwith.solgatos.com> <346a80220610231612o2bc29336id0d4e9795715b7ca@mail.gmail.com>
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In <346a80220610231612o2bc29336id0d4e9795715b7ca@mail.gmail.com>, Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> typed: > On 10/23/06, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote: > > > > So what video card do you recommend for: > > > > FreeBSD 6.x > > AMD64 > > PCIe > > drivers with source (no binary security holes) > > XvMC > > DVI-I plus s-video > > > > no gaming required or desired > > no eye-candy GUI required or desired > > can probably live without 3D > > > I recommend an ATI card. Something slightly older like the X300 or similar. > I have one running dual-head on a 6.1 box with a dual-core EM64T > (FreeBSD/amd64) and it works well. According to the MythTV page on XvMC, ATI doesn't have hardware support for it. The Intel and Via chipsets do, but you can't get a PCIe card with those on it. The proprietary NVidia driver does as well, but that means no sources and either no FreeBSD or no amd64. Of course, the same page also says that XvMC has problems, and that the easy solution - if you have a fast enough CPU - is to simply turn it off. "Fast enough" depends on what you're trying to play back. I've played back 1080i on an P4 with EM64T enabled, so "fast enough" doesnt' seem like much of a stretch. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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