From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 18: 5:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98FA37B401 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6D743E65 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7514oZL010994; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:34:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Andrew Kolchoogin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020804151233.GA32070@snark.rinet.ru> References: <20020803221347.GA3700@freya> <20020803183617.V55525-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20020804151233.GA32070@snark.rinet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 05 Aug 2002 10:34:50 +0930 Message-Id: <1028509497.2325.1.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 00:42, Andrew Kolchoogin wrote: > > You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. > You want to say me that there is an ATI graphics card that is more powerful > than NVidia GeForce? An ATI Radeon 8500 is quite a reasonable card - sure it will get it's ass kicked by a GF4 but lets face it, for the games you can get running under FreeBSD that need Open GL it is more than adequate. It has the advantage of having decent driver support too :) > Sorry, but FreeBSD is really good operating system. Good enough for use it > on servers. As a system programmer, I wish to have a copy of it on my home > desktop. And my son/daughter wish to play games on same desktop. > > What should I do? Change video cards every day? Whatever? Dual boot? Works for me.. > Or use ancient 16-bit NVidia drivers not capable to use even 1152x864x110 Hz? Uh? The ones that come with XFree86 4.2 don't do that? They do for me.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message