On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:43:46PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:08:09PM -0200, Vinicius Vianna wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone can recommend some good video adapter that has a nice support for
> > OpenBSD?
> > I wanna to be able do see movies, specially high definition on my
> > desktop, it's an amd x2 so my only question is about graphics
> > performance, I'm between ati and nvidia right now, but i now nvidia only
> > provides blob drivers, do anyone uses ati on openbsd or can recommend a
> > nice one?
>
> for the near future, I think intel or radeonhd are the best bet, but
> perhaps someone who actually works on this stuff can tell you more.
(I'm someone who actually works on this)
RadeonHD hasn't even started 3d acceleration yet. Intel is a good bet if
you don't want anything that powerful. Older radeons are alright, (check
for support for specific cards on the web first). Radeonhd is ok for
the future, but don't expect anything DRI-wise for a while.
Cheers,
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