From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 20:35:26 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 A420416A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:35:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 752CF43D49 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:35:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 26351 invoked by uid 65534); 26 Nov 2004 20:35:23 -0000 Received: from pD955F8D5.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (217.85.248.213) by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 26 Nov 2004 21:35:23 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from [192.168.8.4] (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAQKZHXF057834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:35:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <41A79384.9000208@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:35:16 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Uwe Laverenz 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> <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20041126084338.GB4179@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <20041126084338.GB4179@laverenz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:35:26 -0000 Uwe Laverenz wrote: > I love my G400max and still use it but: for their (slow+expensive) > Parhelias there is absolutely no support from Matrox, no drivers or > specs that would make them work with FreeBSD or other systems besides > RH 7.3-9.0. The only trouble-free cards are G400 or G550 if you don't > need 3D power. Sorry, nowadays Matrox is not an option for FreeBSD- > or Linux-Users. Actually, on i386 you should be able to just use the binary driver modules from the matrox supplied "redhat" drivers, at least for basic accelerated 2D (that probably excludes advanced multihead functionality like quad-head though). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org