which video card for FreeBSD/amd64

Coleman Kane zombyfork at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 18:34:57 PDT 2005


On 4/26/05, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> > > Nope.  But this is the best you can do AFAIK.  Every DVI-cablable monitor
> > > I've seen can also handle analog VGA15.
> 
> > Once you use a DVI monitor with a DVI video card, the blurriness of
> > VGA15 becomes painfully apparent.
> 
> But the DVI connector of a PCI card is Ok, actually. So PCI Radeon 9200 in
> addition to one of NVidia's DVI connectors is my solution for now -- until
> NVidia comes to its sences and releases a FreeBSD/amd64 driver.
> 
>         -mi
> 

If you are willing to help out anholt@ and the r300.sourceforge.net
guys and work with their driver a little bit, any R300 or R350 should
work as well. I think some of these are dual-DVI (but I don't have one
so not 100% sure).


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