recommended PCI-E video card?

[Ken Gunderson]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:05:03 -0600
Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:

> Igor Robul wrote:
> 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I'm planing to build AMD64 based workstation, and have one question:
> > 
> > which PCI-Express video card works best with X.org on freebsd-amd64 in
> > x64 mode? 
> > 
> > AFAIK nVidia does not have binary drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64, so what
> > opensource driver works best for X.org+FreeBSD+AMD64?
> 
> When I looked at this a couple of months ago, the answer was that 2D
> works just fine, but there simply isn't any support for this
> configuration for 3D acceleration.  Maybe that has changed recently.

I looked at it a couple weeks back and nothing has changed.  At lease
w.r.t. ATI based pci-e cards.  I've got some fairly inexpensive Radeon
300 based PCI- E cards w/128MB ram that I figure will be supported
sooner or later... But if you want/need 3D today then look to an AGP
based card.  That puts you into an older MB though so....

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Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

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