Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:29:28 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@0xfce3.net> Subject: Re: [Recommendation] graphicscard (agp) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200511291829.41813.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051129194404.GA4027@node26.0xfce3.net> References: <20051129180656.GA3619@node26.0xfce3.net> <20051129192653.GA35936@trimind.de> <20051129194404.GA4027@node26.0xfce3.net>
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--nextPart3657169.E0T1q8zRSx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 29 November 2005 02:44 pm, Gordon Bergling wrote: > * Thus spake Sascha Klauder (sklauder@trimind.de): > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:06:56PM +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > > I am building a new workstation. Most hardware was just > > > ordered, but I am still need a good supported graphicscard for > > > FreeBSD. > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a graphicscard based on AGP, which should > > > be support TV-Out. > > > > That heavily depends on what you want to do with it. If you > > just do 2D, DVD-playback and the like, I would recommend a > > Matrox G450 or G550 card. They feature superb image quality, > > are completely supported (TV-output worked when I last used > > one two years ago) and well documented, and even their OpenGL > > performance is sufficient for at least xscreensaver. > > I have seen these cards on Ebay for 5 Euro. That whould be a nice > price. ;) > > I doesn't want to play actually games, yet. I whould to use my > computer to play video via the tv-out. Thats the main capacity that > the card should support under FreeBSD. > > > If you need 3D/OpenGL performance, get an NVidia card. They > > have native drivers (binary-only though), which are quite stable. > > ATI Radeon cards are nice too, but I'd bad luck with DRI drivers > > recently. > > I also have considered NVidida based card, but I am not sure > whether the tv-out port (svideo) is working on FreeBSD. > The S-VIDEO out works fine on my Geforce2 MX. The Nvidia FreeBSD=20 drivers should be on par with the Linux ones with the same version=20 number. I'm pretty sure all the functions of the card work even for=20 the new models. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart3657169.E0T1q8zRSx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDjORlxqA5ziudZT0RAhZJAJ9d+HQgBzOkUt+5xM+UqHv82HaOuwCgxFde Nup4Dpq278/AmjFRbtQ+oOk= =t9zg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3657169.E0T1q8zRSx--
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