Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:56:26 -0600 (MDT) From: darren@chatcanada.net To: kpisman@sw-soft.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best video card for bsds Message-ID: <60322.199.126.144.193.1084906586.squirrel@mail.chatcanada.net> In-Reply-To: <1084851780.61512.22.camel@nothing.plesk.ru> References: <20040518012922.IPHP7895.lakermmtao10.cox.net@smtp.central.cox.net> <1084851780.61512.22.camel@nothing.plesk.ru>
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I've always had an nvidia card with my bsd, I use the 'nv' driver and not nvidia's driver as it is experimental and without updates. I generally leave my display running and swap in and out of text mode without any problems. I've never had a crash because of video except when using nvidia's own driver, which is simple to fix, telnet in, find the .X0-lock file, cat it, kill the pid. -Darren >> I wanted some thoughts on what is the best video card out for freebsd. >> Not just the hardware but who supports freebsd the best by providing >> the best drivers. thx in advance > > i think that ATI RADEON's is what are you looking for.nVidia drivers > are just ugly .With hardware accelerated 'nvidia' driver i wasn't had > uptime more than 10-15 days on my desktop. (5.2.1 at a moment) and > uptime is just a six days. Only one source of hardware failures - my > geForce 2 mx 400 by asus. > > Now my other system is Fedora Core (i need linux ) and it's work with > X's native 'radeon' X server (card is powercolor redeon 9200 ce ). It is > fast enought, and it's stable enought. I think that X is the same on > fedora and BSD's. > > wbr Kirill > >
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