recommended PCI-E video card?

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 03 April 2006 09:33, Joel Dahl wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:05 -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > Igor Robul wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello, 
> > > 
> > > I'm planing to build AMD64 based workstation, and have one question:
> > > 
> > > which PCI-Express video card works best with X.org on freebsd-amd64 in
> > > x64 mode? 
> > > 
> > > AFAIK nVidia does not have binary drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64, so what
> > > opensource driver works best for X.org+FreeBSD+AMD64?
> > 
> > When I looked at this a couple of months ago, the answer was that 2D
> > works just fine, but there simply isn't any support for this
> > configuration for 3D acceleration.  Maybe that has changed recently.
> 
> True, however jhb is working on PAT (which AFAIK Nvidia needs if they're
> going to produce a driver for FreeBSD/amd64) in perforce and this commit
> message is quite interesting, especially the last sentence:  
> 
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=93413

I'm still waiting for feedback on the patch from Nvidia.  Hopefully
they will test the current PAT patch soon.

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