best video card for bsds

darren at chatcanada.net darren at chatcanada.net
Tue May 18 15:31:20 PDT 2004


I've always had an nvidia card with my bsd, I use the 'nv' driver and not
nvidia's driver as it is experimental and without updates.  I generally
leave my display running and swap in and out of text mode without any
problems.  I've never had a crash because of video except when using
nvidia's own driver, which is simple to fix, telnet in, find the .X0-lock
file, cat it, kill the pid.

-Darren


>> I wanted some thoughts on what is the best video card out for freebsd.
>> Not just the hardware but who supports freebsd the best by providing
>> the best drivers. thx in advance
>
>  i think that ATI RADEON's is what are you looking for.nVidia drivers
> are just ugly .With hardware accelerated  'nvidia' driver i wasn't had
> uptime more than 10-15 days on my desktop. (5.2.1 at a moment) and
> uptime is just a six days. Only one source of hardware failures - my
> geForce 2 mx 400 by asus.
>
>  Now my other system is Fedora Core (i need linux ) and it's work with
> X's native 'radeon' X server (card is powercolor redeon 9200 ce ). It is
> fast enought, and it's stable enought. I think that X is the same on
> fedora and BSD's.
>
> wbr Kirill
>
>



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