Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:32 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041203214532.GA55232@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041203193450.037d5e7a.gstewart@bonivet.net> 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>
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--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 <jandrese@mitre.org> > 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--
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