best video card for bsds

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eric Hodel
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:44 PM
> To: Jon Noack
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org; eqe-support at cox.net
> Subject: Re: best video card for bsds
> 
> 
> Jon Noack (noackjr at alumni.rice.edu) wrote:
> 
> > When I say 'accelerated' I mostly mean 3D.  Accelerated 
> drivers often 
> > improve 2D performance as well, but for the vast majority 
> of cases the 
> > 2D speed of the unaccelerated drivers is sufficient.
> > 
> > Note that I am only considering ATI and nVidia cards as 
> they are by far 
> > the most popular.  Others (like Matrox) also offer 
> excellent X support 
> > but are more niche products.
> 
> I'm quite pleased with my Matrox G550, the only "problem" I 
> have with it
> is that after starting X, returning to the text console leaves the
> second monitor on, requiring me to turn it off with the power switch,
> but that's not too far of a reach.

Keep in mind though that the G550 is currently the newest Matrox card 
with any FreeBSD support. I own a P750, it will work with the supplied
X driver but last time I looked it is not featureful and since there is 
no drm module (thus no DRI), it's not particularly quick at anything. 
P650 and Parhelia are in the same boat. 

I believe the ATI Radeon 9100 is the fastest 'community-supported' 
card available.

-Will