Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:52:48 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD Message-ID: <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <20041125160532.GA9813@kierun.org> <52085.192.168.0.200.1101399213.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:06 +0000, Mark Dixon wrote: > On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 16:13, alex bustamante wrote: > > Yes, i know i can check out what cards are supported. I have a Nvidia card > > now, it works ok. I was just curious to know of other cards that maybe > > runs faster or some like that. > > Nvidia are a good option. They supply their own (binary only) driver for > FreeBSD that provides full OpenGL hardware acceleration. I have a fairly low > end card, a Geforce 256 DDR (well, it was high spec at the time), and for me > their driver is fast and reliable. > > The binary onlyness may be of concern to some but it doesn't really bother me. > FWIW, I can imaging the code to program a GPU to do hardware assisted OpenGL > is somewhat complex and would probably mean about as much to me in vi as the > binary version does. I always tell anyone who asks to run very fast and very far away from anything with NVIDIA in it. The NVIDIA drivers are completely crap! They do not work and contain countless errors which will cause system failures on every single machine I have tried to use them with. Do not ever buy or attempt to use anything made by NVIDIA. They just do not work. Use Matrox cards. /Joe
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