From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 19:18:13 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 E149916A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from endif.cjb.net (67-40-62-23.dnvr.qwest.net [67.40.62.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED01443D5A for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:18:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 55009 invoked by uid 0); 25 Nov 2004 19:18:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zork) (192.168.0.22) by 192.168.0.13 with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 19:18:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:16:22 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: Fredrik Eriksson Message-ID: <20041125121622.44019134@zork> In-Reply-To: <20041125194327.C5321@bigtower.net> References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200411251807.47294.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <20041125194327.C5321@bigtower.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Mark Dixon 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 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 19:18:14 -0000 On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:43:28 +0100 Fredrik Eriksson wrote: > > I don't think this is about which card is better than the other, more > about NVidia being reactionary bastards who refuse the idea of open > source. NVidia graphic cards are probably great for playing games in > windos. > The story goes that they cannot release specs or open source drivers for their video cards because they do not own the rights to some parts of their cards. It's better nvidia than ati for newer cards if you want 3d acceleration though, since no open source drivers exist for the newer cards and ati only provides binary drivers for linux. -- Robin Schoonover # Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. # Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* # it, Bob