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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:55:20 -0400
From:      Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net>
To:        Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
Cc:        freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Nikolas@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Message-ID:  <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net>
In-Reply-To: <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com>
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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
> Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> wrote:
>   
>> One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
>> whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-(  I was a fan of ati 
>> since it was easier to get support.  Now I'm starting to lean towards 
>> Nvidia :-(
>>     
>
> Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
> that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
> open-source x.org?  Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer
> system to be better than a non-accelerated frame buffer.
>
> Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a
> G400 or the like), but it's been a long time...
>
> (I'm currently using a lowish-end NVidia card under the x.org nv
> driver, but it has issues (of which no 3D accel is but one...)
>
> Cheers,
>
>   

Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated 
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work 
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. 
It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver 
is working just fine for me.



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