For very good 2D I prefer Matrox: not many problems with drivers and excellent picture (I do image processing) Lionel --- "TD - Sales Int'l Holland B.V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2001 05:45, you wrote: > > i'm going to be getting a new video card soon. i'm running > > freebsd/Xfree-4. what card could you guys recommend? i'm not into 3D > > gaming, but i do like the "extras". like transparent menus, fade-in's, etc, > > etc. i run KDE as my desktop enviroment. > > In my eyes it's a waiste of cpu cycles.... but it's all 2D so you don't need > a 3D accelerated card, just a fast 2D one. If you aren't gonna play any games > with it I'd recommend a nVidia TNT2 M64 or the likes. Those are really cheap > now and probably have enough 2D power for the rest of your lifetime, since 2D > can't be much fancier than it is already. > > > > > basically i want something that won't be out dated next week, but i don't > > need a ati-radeon 8500 either. is there anything that is being actively > > developed with open-source drivers? what about cards that have tv-tuners? > > is there any in paticalar that with linux/bsd better than the others? > > thanks. and please cc me any replies > > nVidia has closed source drivers for the X server if you are looking for 3D > support. X has opensource drivers which only support 2D as well. I have ran > the opensource drivers for a little while and had no problems with them. If > you want 3D you need to get the closed source drivers from nVidia. I believe > they want to release them open source but can't because of some pieces of > code that are patented and thus can't be released to the public. I'm not too > sure about that tho', check the website if you want the details. nVidia > actively works on their closed source drivers tho' so that's a plus. Ofcourse > old cards like an AGP S3 Trio3D or something would do fine probably but I > haven't seen those for ages..... The cheapest cards we supply are nVidia TNT2 > M64's with 32MB of memory. I don't have any experience with Ati cards... but > seeing the lists there are still some issues with those > > > regards > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
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