Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-14 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Friday, 12 March 2004 03:50, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Well, ATI probably won't ever release FreeBSD drivers. I've been in > contact with > a couple of ATI employees, and the most I've been able to get is that one > guy at ATI might write some drivers in his spare time... if ATI will let > him rel

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide b

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Jason
Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide between a ATI or a NVIDIA card for m

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you are going to run freebsd 5.2.1 there aren't a lot of hoops to get an ATI card to work, but some people have reported better frame rates and less graphical glitches with nVidia cards. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP in my PC and its working fine. I

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide between a ATI

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Lucas Holt
If you are going to run freebsd 5.2.1 there aren't a lot of hoops to get an ATI card to work, but some people have reported better frame rates and less graphical glitches with nVidia cards. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP in my PC and its working fine. I turned on glx and dri in X11. From

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Chuck McManis
If you get a commercial X server with accelleration support they will provide a driver. There is some older drivers included in the DRI projects site but nothing current for ATI and nVIDIA isn't supporting DRI apparently. --Chuck At 08:18 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote: I feel very happy when I saw i

NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide between a ATI or a NVIDIA card for my box and I need to have 3D