From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 17 11:24:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net (we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net [24.126.232.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E436F37B400 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from unix.homeip.net (duh@unix.homeip.net [24.126.232.105]) by we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0HJSv950183 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bear@unix.homeip.net) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:28:56 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Garcia X-X-Sender: bear@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Matrox G400 PCI and 3D Hardware Rendering Message-ID: <20020117112324.U24838-100000@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all! I have this older Compaq Prosignia 200 server that has a really crappy PCI video card in it which I wanted to upgrade just so that it makes it easier on my eyes when running X sessions. It's not used for any heavy duty serving or anything like that. More like a test machine. Sometimes I use it for handling syslog message from various devices here in the company, but I'm using another machine for that right now. Back to my question... I was considering getting a Matrox G400 because it would most likely provide really nice 2D acceleration, higher resolutions, and nice color. What I was wondering is could I get hardware acceleration out of that PCI card or is XFree4's 3D acceleration for AGP cards only? I know I'll need to read some more docs on this on the XFree86 site, but I thought maybe someone here can lead me to answer. Thanks in advance. Joey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message