On 02/10/10 03:41, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christof Schulze wrote:
The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive
AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper
one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if
one
uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using
Linux-driver on a FreeBSD box. Hope the situation gets cleared in the
nearest future. It's a kind of deadlock. As I said, either spenig a lot
of money for a working RV770 based AMD graphics card with poor
functionality or nothing so far, since most smaller RV730 chips aren't
supported properly by the most recent drivers.
To be fair - my ATI X300 has always worked. It is a cheap card with
low-end
performance but it is perfectly fine for regular desktop-use.
The older chipsets are better supported because the newer ones are,
well, newer. If you haven't bought a video card yet, look at the
radeon(4x) man page first.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help if you already have a newer card, or
a notebook.
The other choices are Intel, where they don't have standalone video
cards, or nVidia, which has a full-featured blob and a really
bare-bones open driver.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
You said it. Alternatives? Barely. Having Intel-X58 based mainboards for
our workstations, there is no onboard-Intel solution.
Speaking of nVidia - 64Bit FreeBSD-support isn't mature and, as far as I
know, not yet arrived, but underway, but this is in the future and isn't
subject of any consideration if I need to make my choices now.
Our department orders, in most cases, a bunch of systems completely
equipted also with graphics boards. In many cases, there is no reason,
economically, buying outdated graphics boards which are 5 years old and
older, despite the fact that many shops do not offer them.
On Linux, most of those modern ATi/AMD video cards not working with X11
on FreeBSD/amd64 work on Linux due to the fact most Linux derivates have
a more modern OpenSource Xorg environment, including 'cutting' edge DRI
and drivers. The alternative is to play with the well supported 32- and
64-Bit blob even AMD/ATi offers for Linux.
Regards,
Oliver
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