Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:01:23 -0600 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>, Murray Taylor <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Message-ID: <200510262001.26982.krinklyfig@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053D7C@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053D7C@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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On Wed 26 Oct 05 18:17, "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> wrote: > I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports > it. > > I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine, > even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. > > HTH, > Micah > > > Thanks Micah, > > Gawd... > Instead of saying what the supplier is suggesting, maybe I should > turn it about and ask for suggestions re graphics cards that people > are using that have proven support and capabilities under my proposed > os/hardware platform choice ..... > > So --- > What are you using ?? Actually, I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600XT. It's supported, but just in the basic sense. I don't have hardware acceleration or 3D at all, but I don't necessarily need it for FreeBSD. The main reason I got the card in the first place is to play games on Windoze, which is the only reason I use that OS anymore. As a dual boot it works fine, if a bit sluggish on the FreeBSD desktop side (a gig of RAM helps). Having said that, my next plan is to separate the two so that I have a game machine and a workstation running FreeBSD, along with a dedicated server for DNS/mail/spam filtering. When I do that, I'll probably get a halfway decent NVidia card for the workstation and keep the ATI for Windoze. Then to upgrade the game machine ... but I get ahead of myself ... - jt
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