In search of a video card

[Roman Divacky]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
> 
> I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce
> 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home
> machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into
> X. It just hangs. I've been poking around and, based on what I read, some
> FreeBSD developers and Nvidia have gotten into a finger pointing contest as
> to what is the problem. Its all very nice but doesn't help me much.
> 
> So, can any one recommend a good video card? What I'm looking for is
> 
>   * Works with amd64 FreeBSD 7.2
>   * DVI 
>   * PCI-E x16
>   * 512 MB or more
>   * Not going to cost an arm and a leg

you can try nouveau driver in the meantime