video card for amd64

[Coleman Kane]

On 10/23/06, Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
>
> So what video card do you recommend for:
>
>         FreeBSD 6.x
>         AMD64
>         PCIe
>         drivers with source (no binary security holes)
>         XvMC
>         DVI-I plus s-video
>
>         no gaming required or desired
>         no eye-candy GUI required or desired
>         can probably live without 3D


I recommend an ATI card. Something slightly older like the X300 or similar.
I have one running dual-head on a 6.1 box with a dual-core EM64T
(FreeBSD/amd64) and it works well.

I have found that I need to rebuild glib20 and gtk20 with better
optimizations in order to get good performance from the box.

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Coleman Kane