what's the best-supported video card these days?

[Robert Noland]

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 18:08 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking to replace my "ATI Radeon NG R300 FireGL X1" because it 
> seems to be overheating once in a while forcing me to reboot.
> 
> What's the best-supported card? My requirements/preferences are:
> 
>    1. AGP.
>    2. Dual DVI with at least 1600x1200 support (on each port).
>    3. Working with amd64 (hence NVidia is out).
>    4. Good 2D performance -- most important.
>    5. Ok 3D performance -- no need to beat any benchmark, but OpenGL
>       screensaver should be smooth.
>    6. Supported by FreeBSD and Xorg, of course.
> 
> Do such things exist? Thanks for any ideas! Yours,

Others may suggest specific model numbers or the like, but what I can
tell you is that right now, your option is another radeon R500 or below.
R600+ drm support just got committed to HEAD and will be merged to
STABLE fairly soon, but 3d support doesn't exist yet, though it won't be
long.  I don't expect you will find many of those with an AGP connector
though.

robert.

>     -mi
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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