Re: i give up

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:44 -0800, Artem Belevich wrote:
>> > Second, DO NOT use motherboards with built-in video.  These are almost
>> > always nvidia chipsets and suffer from the nvidia problem.  Also, the video
>> > is crappy and buggy.
>>
>> I'd not discount them all as a class. Intel's built-in G33/G35 with
>> recent DRM and x86-video-intel driver seem to work pretty well for
>> accelerated 2D on the few boxes I have under FreeBSD-8/amd64. I even
>> get 3D working on occasion. :-)
>
> Correct, Despite my occasional frustration with them, Intel is very
> supportive.  They are providing docs and code (linux code) and I have a
> decent relationship with the Intel graphics devs.
>
> ATI/AMD has also become much more friendly and r500 and below should
> work fairly well.  r600+ is still under development.
>
> Interestingly enough, VIA just released docs on some of their chips as
> well.  I have it on my list to work on, but I don't yet have hardware to
> work with.
>
> robert.
>
>> --Artem

Eh? ATI can't write drivers to get themselves out of a cardboard box
on Linux, let alone FreeBSD. I have little faith that they'll get
functional 64-bit drivers before nVidia does, as ATI as definitely
demonstrated that they don't care for the *BSD market as much as
nVidia has.
-Garrett