Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:09:25 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre@albsmeier.net> To: Sascha Klauder <sklauder@trimind.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> Subject: Re: [Recommendation] graphicscard (agp) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20051216180925.GA1436@schlappy.albsmeier.net> In-Reply-To: <20051129192653.GA35936@trimind.de> References: <20051129180656.GA3619@node26.0xfce3.net> <20051129192653.GA35936@trimind.de>
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On Tue, 29-Nov-2005 at 20:26:53 +0100, Sascha Klauder wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:06:56PM +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > I am building a new workstation. Most hardware was just ordered, but I > > am still need a good supported graphicscard for FreeBSD. > > > > Can anyone recommend a graphicscard based on AGP, which should be > > support TV-Out. > > That heavily depends on what you want to do with it. If you > just do 2D, DVD-playback and the like, I would recommend a > Matrox G450 or G550 card. They feature superb image quality, > are completely supported (TV-output worked when I last used That's highly interesting. I have never heard of anyone who was able to make a G450/550's TV-Out work under FreeBSD. The Matrox HAL doesn't support TV-Out for G450 and G550. A G400 works perfectly. On dsiplay :0.0 I use a regular CRT and :0.1 is mapped to TV-out. > one two years ago) and well documented, and even their OpenGL Well, may I ask you to send me the config file you used? Or instructions how you made it work? Did you hack the Matrox HAL (i tried to but failed :-()? Or did you use Linux? I know there are some hacks for Linux which require some kernel code we haven't got in FreeBSD... Thanks, -Andre > performance is sufficient for at least xscreensaver. > > If you need 3D/OpenGL performance, get an NVidia card. They > have native drivers (binary-only though), which are quite stable. > ATI Radeon cards are nice too, but I'd bad luck with DRI drivers > recently. > > Cheers, > -sascha
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