Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:12:02 -0400 From: "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork@gmail.com> To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 Message-ID: <346a80220610231612o2bc29336id0d4e9795715b7ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200610232037.UAA26566@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <200610232037.UAA26566@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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On 10/23/06, Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> 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
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