From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 18:34:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E9016A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from opium.dyndns.org (h7n4c1o255.bredband.skanova.com [81.225.11.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D47E43D5D for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:34:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from busta@33rpm.biz) Received: from grass (breed [192.168.0.200]) by opium.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8C661D6; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:34:54 +0100 (CET) From: alex bustamante To: Mark Dixon 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> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: 33rpm Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:34:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1101407699.759.0.camel@grass.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: busta@33rpm.biz List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:34:56 -0000 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