Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:22:19 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> Cc: freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Nikolas@freebsd.org, Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <45F8213B.6000000@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> References: <b1fa29170703131446v6ea65dabr952b8b65e3cce605@mail.gmail.com> <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net>
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Sean Bryant wrote: > 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. I had a PCI-X nvidia card that I couldn't get to work, neither with the nvidia nor the nv driver. But it turned out to be a flaw in the motherboard BIOS. Updating the motherboard BIOS (which was an intel server board) fixed the problem for me. Maybe you have a similar problem, or maybe not. Stephen
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