From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 16:22:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032D916A401; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA1F13C455; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [128.206.184.213] (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2EGMKnc051047; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:22:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <45F8213B.6000000@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:22:19 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20070309 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bryant References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/2839/Wed Mar 14 03:24:32 2007 on math.missouri.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy , Nikolas@freebsd.org, Britton , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:22:32 -0000 Sean Bryant wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) >> Doug Ambrisko 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