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Date:      Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42:20 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, question@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject:   Re: In search of a video card
Message-ID:  <d763ac660905132242yff175a6idd1d322aa95d30a7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com>
References:  <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <20090514000203.3d053800@bhuda.mired.org> <20090514041834.GB1418@mooseriver.com>

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2009/5/14 Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>:

> I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will handle
> WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as the flesh
> tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy.
>
> Thanks for the advice. I guess I'm going to make a trip to Fry's Friday.

I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu
and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow it
is.

I gave up trying to get accelerated 3d + dualhead support on the
card(s) I was using - apparently the hardware just didn't do a single
viewport span across 2 1280x1024 screens :(
(The max viewport width was 2048 pixels..)

2d acceleration may be a must for that kind of resolution..

YMMV (and obviously, please report back your findings!)


adrian



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