Hi all, Is there any graphicscard that is known to work better than others with freebsd/x11? (open sourcecode for the drivers, etc) -Alex -- alex bustamante - busta@33rpm.biz
Quoth alex bustamante on Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 17:02:12 +0100> Is there any graphicscard that is known to work better than others with > freebsd/x11? (open sourcecode for the drivers, etc) > -AlexI've had no problems with Radeon cards at all. But what you need to look at is www.x.org and check their list of supported cards. -- yann@kierun.org -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20041125/d56dc453/attachment.bin
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:02:12PM +0100, alex bustamante wrote:> Hi all, > > Is there any graphicscard that is known to work better than others with > freebsd/x11? (open sourcecode for the drivers, etc) > -Alex >Hello! Matrox MGA G400. Serg.
"alex bustamante" <busta@33rpm.biz> writes:> Hi all, > > Is there any graphicscard that is known to work better than others with > freebsd/x11? (open sourcecode for the drivers, etc)All Radeons up to 9100 (9200, but that one is slower). Unfortunately, that excludes all reasonably new cards. -- Hilsen Harald.
alex bustamante <busta@33rpm.biz> wrote:
> Is there any graphicscard that is known to work better than others with
> freebsd/x11? (open sourcecode for the drivers, etc)
Here are my two (Euro) cents ...
If you don't want to play the latest 3D ego shooter games,
get a Matrox MGA G400 (or even G200) from eBay. They are
cheap, work very well for 2D stuff (even support OpenGL
for those cool 3D screen savers). Also, the analog VGA
output of Matrox cards has legendary quality which
matches that of the digital DVI output of other cards
(you get an excellent, sharp picture). And last but not
least, the XFree86/Xorg drivers are rock-stable.
I'm using Matrox MGA cards for many years, starting with
the Matrox Millenium. Unfortunately, Matrox has gotten
stingy of drivers and specs lately, so I'd advise against
buying their newer cards (Parhelia).
Best regards
Oliver
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Maybe a little OT, but: IMHO the 3D-acceleration issue is too much considered a gamer's problem: There are software producers around like us that use FreeBSD and Linux for their 3D visualization programs. As an example, display of large CFD models needs an excellent VM and good 3D acceleration. For us and our clients the overall quality (stability, correctness, speed) of the 3D part of X & co. is an important criterium of the platform, as is the stability of the kernel, the quality of the file system, manpages, etc. On SGI, we had excellent 3D support, but price-performance, stability, and security were less good. On BSD and Linux we have the latter, but are running in all kinds of problems with 3D, especially when using multiple OpenGL contexts in multiple threads, off-screen rendering, etc. Testing is quite intricate, and there are many subtle ways to screw things there (e.g. recent xorg and xfree86 crashes X server during off-screen rendering). Stuff like glxgears is not sufficient for that purpose... -- Thomas Ludwig SMR SA Phone: +41-32-3452124 P.O. Box 4014 Fax: +41-32-3452120 CH-2500 Bienne 4 E-mail: ludwig@smr.ch