Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

[Micah]

Hans Nieser wrote:
> Micah wrote:
>> I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class
>> I'm taking.  I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not
>> supported on it in the current Xorg.  The only slots on my Mobo are PCI
>> and PCI-EX.  I use the i386 release of FreeBSD currently, but would like
>> to have the option to move to the amd64 release.  Any suggestions on a
>> low-end (read cheap) card?  I know "nvidia" is often recommended, but
>> any particular model?
>>
> 
> I myself ran into an issue with FreeBSD and nvidia where my PCI-Express
> Geforce 6800GT only gave a fraction of the performance that I should have
> been able to get. After asking about it on the nvidia forums at nvnews.net
> I was told that there is an issue between the nvidia driver and FreeBSD
> kernel that affect non-native PCI-Express cards, it was being worked on
> but for now I am still suffering from it. More info:
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59981

Yeah, I've seen that problem mentioned in previous posts.  How terrible 
is the performance?  I just need something that can get more than 1 fps 
on simple ogl class projects.

Additionally, does anyone know the answer to the last question in the 
thread pointed to above? "Exactly which nvidia cards are/are not 
'native' PCI-Express?"

Thanks,
Micah