In search of a video card

[Mike Meyer]

On May 14, 2009, at 1:42, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch <jgrosch at mooseriver.com>:
>
>> I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will  
>> handle
>> WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as  
>> the flesh
>> tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy.
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. I guess I'm going to make a trip to Fry's  
>> Friday.
>
> I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu
> and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow it
> Is.

Well, the stock Ubuntu desktop is Gnome, which I find sluggish and  
horribly slow on amd64 hardware even with Nvidias 2d & 3d acceleration  
at any size above 1024x768 - at least in it's default config.

If all depends on your window manager, config and expectations.

       <mike