On Friday 29 November 2013 18.48:37 Cassandra von Ahrcanburg wrote: > Graphics board > Since I am buying and I have no personal preferences towards AMD or > nVidia, maybe you can tell me which company is the better choice for > Dragonfly. I am a gamer at times, so I will be buying something in the > area of an X770 (or a similar AMD model, maybe an R9 280). I have asked > this question before in a German BSD newsgroup (concerning FreeBSD). > Somehow the discussion left the hardware-level very quickly and I had > to explain myself why I wanted a working graphics board under BSD > anyway. I can live without eyecandy like Compiz, but I like it just the > same. And I also use my computer for watching videos. There, I've > "said" it. :-) > My workstation will be able to boot both Windows and BSD.
Just one more thing that John and Justin did not mention: the i915 driver works well up to ivybrige, ie: there is no support for haswell (yet). If you opt for AMD, the current radeon driver (non kms) is xf86-video-ati-6.14.6. Therefore, choose a card that is supported by this version of the driver. Cheers, Robin
