From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 18:45:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B9F10656BA for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:45:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wtf.jlaine@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521C08FC13 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so1113651ewy.43 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-operating-system; bh=4ELiblsqGGDITWYMNt9a6jCkRhk2GeI+Tat+2/4fHpc=; b=xuBnZabBdrbe+7Irh7tp4OypJ2FDs45qWPWzknsswREGQ8pfA+Pp8p3rwKEgk+YtPd Bd23VQIxs8LHISh7aqXiY2mWfw7tbnOOX8pWC1PwPCws8qksU2+LaFP7X0jah82Y0BH9 C/1n4LhvxVOBHRn1yawMnMflWsINLPXvv4hGs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent:x-operating-system; b=jY9YTrqYd6XVHeJCS9osPLnnaV/Ne6kMFUU7lKYgmptFqHacu9aoZZ3l6s30qmKhFK HYSwJbIvcPpvM8qOgpX2i/PVMto+1PReUUyB2PDOBOGfqsdAylHWw6jrMnGusNZmswBE 2CGSJ4pvKAAv1420bUaTa6EwJST1/nQMPTKEg= Received: by 10.216.86.211 with SMTP id w61mr130139wee.6.1255632334010; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aperture_lab ([77.66.145.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m5sm749063gve.26.2009.10.15.11.45.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by aperture_lab (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0400 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0400 From: Jeff Laine To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20091015184528.GA27452@free.bsd.loc> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Laine , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> <20091014234826.39a42b6d.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091014234826.39a42b6d.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 i386 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics card recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:45:35 -0000 On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > > All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the "mtrr" problem you're > > talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and > > 8-STABLE. > > I had an old-fashioned ATI Radeon 9200 RV250 AGP with both a VGA > and a VGA-on-DVI monitor. With also old-fashioned XFree86 this > setting worked good performance-wise, which was in FreeBSD 5, > but I haven't tested this in FreeBSD 7 with Xorg yet because > I'm very upset about the speed-loss of "modern" software. :-( > Furthermore, I don't have the second 21" CRT anymore, so no > dual-head for me at the moment. > > I am nearly sure that for today's requirements, Intel GPUs > seem to be the most fitting ones, but as I don't own any of > them, I can't give you clues from a user's point of view. > In the past, ATI always was my first choice, but today, I > would triple-check anything. > Having had a _lot_ of troubles with Intel video recently I'd not recommend using it. Poor performance (both 2D and 3D) and various glitches after several updates of intel-video driver. And still having that bug with broken xv out driver of mplayer. :( -- Best regards, Jeff | "Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ..." | | Xorg.conf(5) |