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Subject: Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
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Kirk Strauser wrote:

>I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and 
>really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the RenderAccel 
>option.  This machine has become glacially slow since some 
>as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally like 
>to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading 
>probably won't help.
>
>Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card?
>  
>
Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers?  All geforce series 
should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia 
releases there own closed source drivers.