From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 23:35:26 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 2373116A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 23:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from link.soulwax.net (link.soulwax.net [216.58.85.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A5B43D53 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 23:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@volta.soulwax.net) Received: from volta.soulwax.net (volta.soulwax.net [10.0.0.11]) by link.soulwax.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE8724 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 02:35:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by volta.soulwax.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A2D63C0FF; Wed, 19 May 2004 02:35:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 02:35:01 -0400 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040519063501.GE49494@volta.soulwax.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Wed, 19 May 2004 06:35:26 -0000 On 2004-05-18 23:03 +0000, Evan Dower wrote: > I wonder if someone might be interested in maintaining a web page about the > current status of various video cards with respect to FreeBSD and X. Some > sort of table with a card column, a driver column, a hardware acceleration > status column, and a qualitative stability column would be fantastic. I'm > sure it would be useful and appreciated. I personally would love to have a > set place to look up this information whenever it's needed. It seems like > it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to maintain, but then I'm not exactly > volunteering either (though I might in a month or two ;-). > My two cents (which apparently originated because two cents was the price > of a stamp to send a letter to the president of the United States), I suppose I could do something with the NVIDIA FAQ. I would need significant input from other people though, I don't really own non-NVIDIA hardware. I'm not really interested in listing every piece of hardware out there though. Perhaps we should limit it to cards which (in one way or another) provide hardware accelerated 3D? -- Munish Chopra