From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 16:38:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CEA16A407 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:38:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3641313C45A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:38:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2EGcM2r099140; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:38:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45F824F9.2070708@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:38:17 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> <45F8213B.6000000@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <45F8213B.6000000@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:38:28 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kip Macy , Nikolas@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Sean Bryant , freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Britton Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:38:43 -0000 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Sean Bryant wrote: > >> Andrew Reilly wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) >>> Doug Ambrisko wrote: >>> >>> >>>> One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, >>>> whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati >>>> since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean >>>> towards Nvidia :-( >>>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards >>> that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of >>> open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer >>> system to be better than a non-accelerated frame buffer. >>> >>> Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a >>> G400 or the like), but it's been a long time... >>> >>> (I'm currently using a lowish-end NVidia card under the x.org nv >>> driver, but it has issues (of which no 3D accel is but one...) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >> >> >> Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that >> accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot >> get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing >> happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express >> card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me. > > > I had a PCI-X nvidia card PCI-X? Or PCI Express? PCI-X is not the same thing. Scott