On 6/7/06, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When, NVIDIA out of question, what vga card/menufacturer has good 3d acceleration and will work in DragonFly? ATI, Matrox etc?
Difficult question. DragonFly's kernel has direct rendering for a few cards (including some of the older Radeon chips which are still good for many things). However, if you want "good" 3D acceleration, you have to go to a new generation... which aren't supported *anywhere* without binary blobs. Which, incidentally, are entirely incompatible with DragonFly's kernel. And nVidia seem to be the least sucky of the current generation vendors, but that's not saying much. What do you need it for? If you're out for Free Unix gaming which requires acceleration, you probably won't see much point in running DragonFly - it has virtually no corporate support at this stage, through no fault of the developers. Linux will work okay, and so will FreeBSD. I don't know which is more stable right now, or more performant for whatever work load... and your Linux experience will depend highly on your distribution. And let me tell you, they all suck in their own special ways. Now if you're after some CAD work that's different, and something about which I know nothing :) -- Dmitri Nikulin
