Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wed 26 Oct 05 18:17, "Murray Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports > it. > >   I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine, > even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. > > HTH, > Mica

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
Viruses by MailMarshal.*** -Original Message- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Murray Taylor wrote: > > Thanks to those who commented &g

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Micah
Murray Taylor wrote: Thanks to those who commented - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based card) instead of the nVidia card mentioned below. Comments welcome

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
Thanks to those who commented - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based card) instead of the nVidia card mentioned below. Comments welcome cheers mjt -Origi

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/18/05, Murray Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have mental question marks against the graphics card > and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am > not > interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour > resolution) If you do not desire to pla

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Murray Taylor wrote: Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. I have a very, very similar setup running 5.4 and xorg, and it's generally been good. See comments