From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 23:12:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5419016A403 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zombyfork@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCC143D99 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:12:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zombyfork@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o37so610064nzf for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=qntHV/A0pkYwGSBmqKj17h2fnmLJfP9bEsqZHpBUDSVCWBVwyl0Bn+ABE1rzb3AhgCmuUPUl1ymCc9Cq20lG16aHcbwkzOlS7iunbvwek1oISuRE7ak7hqdyu39Ii24eojSZRyC9OozqASiBcEiv8RXeI0pOn/Bx4jM6IDkNxHY= Received: by 10.65.193.16 with SMTP id v16mr6273728qbp; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.241.10 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <346a80220610231612o2bc29336id0d4e9795715b7ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:12:02 -0400 From: "Coleman Kane" To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com In-Reply-To: <200610232037.UAA26566@sopwith.solgatos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200610232037.UAA26566@sopwith.solgatos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: cokane@cokane.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:12:36 -0000 On 10/23/06, Dieter wrote: > > So what video card do you recommend for: > > FreeBSD 6.x > AMD64 > PCIe > drivers with source (no binary security holes) > XvMC > DVI-I plus s-video > > no gaming required or desired > no eye-candy GUI required or desired > can probably live without 3D I recommend an ATI card. Something slightly older like the X300 or similar. I have one running dual-head on a 6.1 box with a dual-core EM64T (FreeBSD/amd64) and it works well. I have found that I need to rebuild glib20 and gtk20 with better optimizations in order to get good performance from the box. -- Coleman Kane