An alternative to undocumented graphics/video cards is in the works.
The Open Graphics Project has a prototype working. If you can
assist the project (engineering talent, financial, etc.) the
production boards will be available sooner.
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote:
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might be
[Doug Ambrisko]
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
And if the Nouveau project URL:http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
is successful, things could get very interesting indeed. ;-)
-=EPS=-
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy
notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this.
We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages,
which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way,
Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
It is not a problem but a marketing decision we
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:40:19 -0500
Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything
bad about the 550 either, and it's a bit more capable. But then, the
550 is also like 6 years old now (and still $100 new, and uncommon
used),
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:43:12AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Andrew Reilly, and lo! it spake thus:
Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a G400
or the like), but it's been a long time...
I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything
bad about
On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Eric P. Scott wrote:
[Doug Ambrisko]
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
And if the Nouveau project URL:http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
is successful, things could get very interesting indeed. ;-)
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Scott Long wrote:
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting
Quoth Sean Bryant on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20 -0400
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might be the
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get
Scott Long wrote:
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Give him your two cents.
already did, i use AMD
Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer
system to be better
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote:
...
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Give him your two cents.
On 3/12/07, Daniel
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's
On Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 03:58:34 (PM) Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Do you in your wildest dreams actually
On 3/13/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
driver. I have a friend who
On Mar 13, 2007, at 16:33 , Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the
Kip Macy writes:
| Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
| goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
| support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
| because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
|
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
Kip Macy writes:
| Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
| goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
| support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
| because of the problems I
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
Kip Macy writes:
| Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
| goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
| support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
| because of the problems I
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL
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