Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 05:43:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Thomas Donnelly <tad1214@aol.com> Cc: Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free bsd on laptops Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008060515460.21314@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4C598614.5090401@aol.com> References: <20100804132800.298731CC3A@ptavv.es.net> <4C598614.5090401@aol.com>
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Thomas Donnelly wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> >> ATI is open source friendly. NVIDIA is not. Still, both generally work. >> > I must be missing something because to my knowledge FreeBSD does not have any > 3D support for any modern ATi card radeon(4x) has 3D acceleration, and 3D software seems to use it (I'm not a serious 3D user, so there may be subtleties here). As far as modern cards, it supports X- (X700), 1000- (1650, 1950), 2000-, 3000-, and 4000-series cards. 5000-series are not yet supported. > while nVidia has 32 and 64 bit drivers that work very well for full 3D > acceleration (needed for things like compiz). Forum users have reported success with compiz on Radeon cards. I have not yet tried that (started but got distracted by other things). > I am running 8-Stable amd64 with a GTX 260 in my desktop at work and > it runs very fast. I would extremely highly recommend nVidia over ATi > if you are going to be using FreeBSD. My Inspiron XPS has an ATi > Mobility Radeon 9800 and not only does it not have 3D support, it also > frequently hard locks when running the ATi driver. This laptop works > fine with any other OS. Mobility 9800 isn't explicitly listed as working with the radeon driver, and of course it's very old. A Dell integrated FireGL 9000 with 32M of video RAM didn't seem to like 3D, either, but I don't know if that can be blamed on just the radeon driver. > Also, Intel Integrated works well and is a decent choice if you don't need > lots of horsepower. Well... there are problems with the way Intel is going with the driver. The latest versions of the Intel integrated video hardware can be a problem.
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