the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:26:20 -0500, Jason Andresen <jandrese at mitre.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > IMHO, if you just want 2D, pretty much any bottom of the barrel card 
> > will work.
> 
> I'd add that Matrox cards are excellent in the 2D arena. I still have an old
> G200 here and It beats the socks off the ATI Rage128 I also have as far as
> clarity and general piqué are concerned.
> 
> Obviously, the Rage128 does better than the G200 in the 3D department,
> although not in FreeBSD for some reason I have yet to fathom out. In Linux
> it works fine.

If you want hardware accellerated 3D (direct rendering) you can use any
radeon upto and including the 9250 (which I have). It works fine in both
2D and 3D. Direct rendering now also works on AMD64. For 3D you have to
load the agp and radeon modules.

Roland

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