video card for amd64

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 14:55, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <45351E55.000003.14882 at webmail11.yandex.ru>, Victor Ploshykhin 
<rax-rax at yandex.ru> typed:
> > I have FreeBSD 6.1 on AMD64. Unfortunaly there are no nvidia drivers for 
video card in my computer. So I will put another one.
> > Could you tell me what video cards are REALLY supported in this 
configuration.
> 
> For what purpose? I used a pair of nvidia cards on my amd64 desktop
> for months. I've since discovered that the driver I was using didn't
> properly support either large LCDs or dual heads (though the latter
> may have been a configuration problem on my part). I bought an ATI
> card, and now have said large LCD as one of the two heads attached to
> the card.
> 
> ATI, unlike NVidia, supports open source OS's properly, by releasing
> docs and/or driver source for their cards.

Only for older cards, not any of their newer stuff.

-- 
John Baldwin