Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 10:45:06 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of ATI video acceleration support + freebsd port code Message-ID: <CAFHbX1JY4zaQFcSiEk8W5PLNDLYfY7jvD=nY5=cLRFdzpNs10g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23361.1367959126@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <23361.1367959126@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@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
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