FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:07:45 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> 2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> => To freebsd-questions at freebsd.org :
>> VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
>> VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
>> VS> often watch movies on it.
>>
>> I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the
>> 'driver nv' that is 'just enough' for watching movies.
>
> I'm also using nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) here, using the
> "nvidia" driver and the kernel module. Works very good, except
> my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system
> in an unpredictable manner. :-)
>
> Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with
> less trouble, using XFree86's (and later on X.org's) stock
> "ati" driver.
>
> Any not-too-recent card should work fine.

More specifically, up to 4000-series Radeons.  The HD4650 works well.