Status of ATI video acceleration support + freebsd port code

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> For the desktop however (and I'm sure that saying this here will probably
> result in my public stoning), as I have learned only slowy and painfully,
> it actually kinda sucks.  As we have been discussing, _full_ support for
> video chips from two of the three biggest suppliers of such things, AMD
> and Nvidia, doesn't exist, even for some cards already considered to be
> obsolete, such as the Radeon HD 5450 which, I gather, was introduced way
> back in 2011.

Nvidia cards are fully supported; the only feature currently not
present in the proprietary driver is Optimus.

Yes, it is a proprietary and closed source driver, but more
importantly, it just works. X works, DRI works, 2D acceleration works,
xv works, opengl works, xrandr works, vdpau (video offload) works.
Save yourself pain and time and just go with nvidia.

Cheers

Tom