Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:25:38 -0700 From: "Aaron Namba" <aaron@namba1.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Andrew Kolchoogin" <andrew@snark.rinet.ru> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <AGEPIAHMBGINOAKELHMPGECDDLAA.aaron@namba1.com> In-Reply-To: <1028509497.2325.1.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Actually, there is an ATI card that beats a geforce 4. http://www.ati.com/products/pc/radeon9700/ Should be out by the end of the month. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daniel O'Connor Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:05 PM To: Andrew Kolchoogin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H 0z0M0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 2000.8.300 020725180847Z 030725180847Z0B1 0 UThawte Freemail Member1 0 *H aaron@namba1.com00 *H 0 Iz'') {$2==s+} bCU^FKeBNLDf %lNo~̅p 2&&o O @k%"Pb`ٔ$Dž{t wC -0+0U 0aaron@namba1.com0 U 0 0 *H KO[<֞ ⯳Ǎ_?~ѧ [hkugV 4k )Y 1#k ;bg_|o9R#ugpк(jҚ`zSVY!ި x@ 4#%080fErtcvE.0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10U Thawte Consulting1(0&U Certification Services Division1$0"UThawte Personal Freemail CA1+0) *H personal-freemail@thawte.com0 000830000000Z 040827235959Z01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 2000.8.3000 *H 0 32c %E>nx'gڈD)c5*mp<ܮto034qmOe KaU5u'rװ |CBPQ<9TIf - ki N0L0)U "0 0 10UPrivateLabel1-2970U 0 0 U 0 *H 1KG]qSl]y=&b""I'{9$ *8PUl LGl X1B li+@]jy.%݊ Z<D&iHΥbb10001 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 2000.8.30M0 + e0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 020805012524Z0# *H 1wi` j7I {0X *H 1K0I0 *H 0*H 0+0 *H (0+0 *H 0 +71001 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10 U Thawte1 0U Certificate Services1(0&U Personal Freemail RSA 2000.8.30M0 *H BT?Ri2j7m`ytJ^'#fٞfP'Qbtxh&c)E٭ r0lʮiQ; 'W$oe&ӡsp50mBl7help
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