2/3D rendering cards

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jul 28 01:18:09 UTC 2012


On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, matt wrote:

> For what it's worth a Radeon 4650 has been both cheap, accelerated and quiet 
> for my basic desktop use (compiz, ioquake, native rtcw :), etc). This gives 
> me hdmi, dvi and vga, where I can use VGA as one screen and either HDMI or 
> DVI as the other. Mine's a powercolor Go! brand, but it doesn't 
> matter...should be around $30-40 USD. Do not enable KMS, and all is well. It 
> does take a while to switch back to syscons, especially if you are using a 
> high resolution mode.

Enabling moused in rc.conf can speed up console switching.  I don't know 
why.


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