suggested xorg-compatible video HW for FreeBSD/amd64 ?

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am looking for suggestions for a video card that works with
> some Xorg driver on FreeBSD/amd64 (either RELENG_9 or HEAD).
> I am not interested in anything fancy, just plain 2d desktop
> and video playback.
>
> I have some new machines with i7-2600k CPU but the onboard
> card is not recognised by the newer intel drivers, and the vesa
> driver crashes as soon as i do something (such as changing
> resolution to something different from 1024, or switching vtys, etc).
> I understand that there is work in progress on the Intel side
> but i will post a separate msg on the topic.
>
> I can get some nvidia (GeForce: 210 or GT520) or ATI (Sapphire Radeon:
> HD5450 or HD5570) but am unclear if/how they are supported. The
> nvidia drivers on the nvidia page say there is only FreeBSD/x86 support,
> and googling around doesn't give any good or encouraging suggestions.
>
> Can anyone with xorg working on FreeBSD/amd64 share some info on his
> configuration ?
>
> thanks
> luigi
>



I am not an expert about hardware issues in FreeBSD .

After reading many mails , and some documents , I have decided to buy the
following
hardware


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFX
http://xfxforce.com/en-us/Products/Graphics-Cards/ATI/ATI-Radeon-HD-4000-Series/ATI-Radeon-HD-4670.aspx


http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dp67de.html

to perform the following tasks :

- To attach two monitors to the video card .
- To modify / improve FreeBSD / Xorg sources to divert ( serial console ,
stdout , stderr ) outputs to one of the monitors  , and the rest into the
other monitor .


Reasons to select the hardware :


- I think Intel boards are more reliable , more suitable for Unix from the
other brands within
very limited budget ,

- ATI Radeon has more information sources than Nvidia with respect to open
source software . There is no any documentation about Nvidia chipsets ( or
I could NOT find ) .



http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonProgram
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/


http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx
http://developer.amd.com/zones/opensource/Pages/default.aspx


Within one week , I think , I will be able to obtain the above parts .


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk