Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

[Mark Ovens]

Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> 
> Don't know  about CompuViz, but if you would like to try compiz fusion, 
> I am a bit tempted to point you to this article (maybe because I am the 
> author :) 
> 

Ah, compiz - that's what I was thinking of ;-)

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/compiz-fusion/
> 
> This will answer your questions on installing nvidia drivers and also 
> getting 3D effects and compiz-fusion to work.
> Note that there is no nvidia-supplied (read: proprietary) driver for the 
> 64bit version of FreeBSD. The community 'nvidia' driver works fine, 
> although no 3D and 2D performance is somewhat limited.  I've used a 
> number of cards with FreeBSD (7300GT, 7300Go (laptop), 6600GT,  6200) 
> and never had problems.
> 
> The FX series should also work, but why not buying a newer card? You can 
> get new entry-level nvidia cards for very little money.

Well, it's down to money really but I'll take a look at the price of new 
cards.

Thanks.

Mark