From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 06:41:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E9A16A407 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:41:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: from av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3B043D64 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:41:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6BD36382E3; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F69F38110; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.30] (h33n2fls31o985.telia.com [213.67.213.33]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2901C37E43; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:41:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4535CC95.5030501@gneto.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:41:25 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer References: <45351E55.000003.14882@webmail11.yandex.ru> <17717.10025.959024.108597@bhuda.mired.org> <20061017213931.bbcd701a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <17717.13909.352765.706420@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <17717.13909.352765.706420@bhuda.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:41:33 -0000 Mike Meyer skrev: > "Better" is a judgement call, and doesn't imply "good". I'd say ATI is > better than nVidia, because ATI provides information for at least some > of their cards, so you can get open source drivers for them that work For cards that are ~3years old! The ones you can buy today does not work at all! > It may be that ATI is moving towards stopping support for open source > systems. That would be a shame. That is the direction they've been heading the last years. At least we can hope for a change now that AMD have bought them. > Whether releasing closed-source drivers for a handful of open-source > platforms qualifies as "supporting open source" is another > question. Clearly they're supporting the platform, but that's not > necessarily the same thing. At present the nVidia cards is the only choice for FreeBSD, it is not as good as it could be (no amd64 support but that is FreeBSD's fault not nVidia), but it is something. /Martin