From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 18:40:18 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 8FD9437B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE7E43E4A for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:39:54 -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 g751dYZL011539; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:09:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: RE: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Aaron Namba Cc: Andrew Kolchoogin , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 05 Aug 2002 11:09:34 +0930 Message-Id: <1028511583.2325.3.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 10:55, Aaron Namba wrote: > 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. Yes, and there are no drivers for it either. > -----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 -- 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