supported cards graphics

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/28/07, Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:52:33AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >> Instituto de Ingenieria Área de Sistemas Unix/Linux wrote:
> >>> Hello:
> >>> I'm going to buy an Intel QuadCore system and I would like to install
> >>> FreeBSD, I'm going to use it with graphic applications so I need it to
> >>> work well with 3D graphic acceleration cards.
> >>>
> >>> In the Freebsd list people reply me by sending a link to the Freebsd
> >>> supported hardware web site, but there isn't any information about
> >>> graphic cards, so they tell me to check the Xorg site but i can't find
> >>> any information regarding supported cards.
> >>>
> >>> Could anyone help me with this?
> >> ATI proprietory linux drivers are utter garbage and NVidia ones are
> >> infinitely better i've found.
> >>
> >> The FOSS drivers won't give you much if any acceleration.
> >
> > Except that neither of them are supported on FreeBSD (NVIDIA's last
> > FreeBSD driver won't work on anything beyond 6.7.x, IIRC), and that the
> > FOSS Radeon driver offers almost full acceleration for everything up to
> > X999 (i.e. anything below X1000),
>
> X series only? The FOSS driver for the 9550 seemed pretty unaccelerated.
> The proprietory ATI driver would lock up or crash in firefox on web pages
> with java graphs.

All radeons except the r500s and r600s are supported.  savage,
unichrome, rage128 and mach64 have DRI support as well.

Alex