recommended PCI-E video card?

[Joel Dahl]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:05 -0600, Scott Long 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.

True, however jhb is working on PAT (which AFAIK Nvidia needs if they're
going to produce a driver for FreeBSD/amd64) in perforce and this commit
message is quite interesting, especially the last sentence:  

http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=93413

-- 
Joel