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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:35:05 -0700
From:      Louis Kowolowski <louisk@cryptomonkeys.com>
To:        Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net>
Cc:        freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Nikolas@freebsd.org, Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Message-ID:  <20070314183504.GE1496@cryptomonkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net>
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote:
=2E..
> Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated=
=20
> but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work=
=20
> for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.=
=20
> It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver=
=20
> is working just fine for me.
>
On a Thinkpad T60p, using the vesa driver using GLGears, I get a little=20
better than 30fps at 1600x1200x32 on a 15" display.

Good enough for me.
--=20
Louis Kowolowski	KE7BAX			louisk@cryptomonkeys.com
Cryptomonkeys:                      http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/~louisk

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