the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

[alex bustamante]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:06 +0000, Mark Dixon wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 16:13, alex bustamante wrote:
> > Yes, i know i can check out what cards are supported. I have a Nvidia card
> > now, it works ok. I was just curious to know of other cards that maybe
> > runs faster or some like that.
> 
> Nvidia are a good option. They supply their own (binary only) driver for 
> FreeBSD that provides full OpenGL hardware acceleration. I have a fairly low 
> end card, a Geforce 256 DDR (well, it was high spec at the time), and for me 
> their driver is fast and reliable.
> 
> The binary onlyness may be of concern to some but it doesn't really bother me. 
> FWIW, I can imaging the code to program a GPU to do hardware assisted OpenGL 
> is somewhat complex and would probably mean about as much to me in vi as the 
> binary version does.

OK. Thanks!
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alex bustamante - busta at 33rpm.biz