what's the best-supported video card these days?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Mar 9 16:30:59 PDT 2009
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Mikhail T. wrote:
> I'm looking to replace my "ATI Radeon NG R300 FireGL X1" because it seems to
> be overheating once in a while forcing me to reboot.
>
> What's the best-supported card? My requirements/preferences are:
>
> 1. AGP.
> 2. Dual DVI with at least 1600x1200 support (on each port).
> 3. Working with amd64 (hence NVidia is out).
> 4. Good 2D performance -- most important.
> 5. Ok 3D performance -- no need to beat any benchmark, but OpenGL
> screensaver should be smooth.
> 6. Supported by FreeBSD and Xorg, of course.
>
> Do such things exist? Thanks for any ideas! Yours,
There are AGP versions of the X1650 and X1950. They're relatively
expensive and usually come with VGA/DVI. Don't know about dual
1600x1200 or amd64.
The X1650 I'm using right now is PCIE. Cheap, dual-DVI, 2D, 3D. It's
almost perfect.
"Almost" meaning that a few times an hour, it blinks a single frame of
the magnified upper left corner of the screen. Maybe just this card,
but it sounds like this:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14609
If anyone else using an X1650 on FreeBSD has seen the blink, they
haven't mentioned it.
Oh, and there's a bug that causes the "skytentacles" screensaver shows
tentacles in purple, not green. I think all my Radeons do that, but
haven't cared enough to track it down.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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