Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:34:59 +0100 From: alex bustamante <busta@33rpm.biz> To: Mark Dixon <mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD Message-ID: <1101407699.759.0.camel@grass.dyndns.org> 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. OK. Thanks! -- alex bustamante - busta@33rpm.biz
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