[geeks] Recommendations?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > > So basically I'm looking for something that has great 2D AND 3D
> > > performance... most of the whizbang gaming features if not all of them,
> > > but I don't want to buy more card than I can use certainly.  Dual heads
> > > and great features for doing graphic work is not necessary.  I'm going
> > > for pure games here... but I'd like to be able to run X if possible.
> > > I'm basically looking to max out the graphics in this system.  Sridhar
> > > mentions 3DLabs... those are the Oxygen boards right?   I always thought
> > > those were great, but again I'd like to get the highest performance game
> > > card I can get for a dual Pro PCI.  This system also has a 10K SCSI UW
> > > drive in it and is really a lot faster than any of the other Pro's I've
> > > run.  PR440FX Intel board.  The Venus board I had for my single Pro 256
> > > ran Windows 2K like a dog... this machine is quite fast on the otherhand.
> >
> > Get a used Oxygen.  The older Oxygen cards were designed for systems that
> > were out when they came out, and they usually have a bit more horespower
> > under the hood, because they were designed for the video/animation market.
>
> Err, what do you have to do to get an Oxygen doing OpenGL under FreeBSD?

Install XFree86.  Install the Xserver.  Install the OpenGL support
package.

Peace...  Sridhar