From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 21:45:22 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 5B40816A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:45:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEEB43D46 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB3LjKmr038680 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6BF3863C5; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:32 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041203214532.GA55232@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <87zn15zoqo.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <41A63A78.2030506@mukappabeta.de> <41A9CC27.3030408@saunalahti.fi> <41AA70E3.2000108@mukappabeta.de> <41B0AFCC.1060501@mitre.org> <20041203193450.037d5e7a.gstewart@bonivet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041203193450.037d5e7a.gstewart@bonivet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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, 03 Dec 2004 21:45:22 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:26:20 -0500, Jason Andresen > wrote: >=20 > > IMHO, if you just want 2D, pretty much any bottom of the barrel card=20 > > will work. >=20 > I'd add that Matrox cards are excellent in the 2D arena. I still have an = old > G200 here and It beats the socks off the ATI Rage128 I also have as far as > clarity and general piqu=E9 are concerned. >=20 > Obviously, the Rage128 does better than the G200 in the 3D department, > although not in FreeBSD for some reason I have yet to fathom out. In Linux > it works fine. If you want hardware accellerated 3D (direct rendering) you can use any radeon upto and including the 9250 (which I have). It works fine in both 2D and 3D. Direct rendering now also works on AMD64. For 3D you have to load the agp and radeon modules. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBsN58EnfvsMMhpyURAqTVAJwNXy1XAtBEohn6hnm1M4KLCmyLFgCeKtOt 8oaxPDcJV7VJNPNfxG084r0= =ptkM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--