Re: Recommend me an AGP card for DragonFly

[Max Herrgard <herrgard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:56:41 +0100
> Max Herrgard<herrgard@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I feel it's time to get something faster than my old Matrox G450 to run
> > with the DragonFly box. Any recommendations? I don't want to upgrade to
> > PCIe yet as I would need to build a completly new box for that. And I
> > want 3D acceleration in X. I will probably do some ghetto silent cooling
> > thing, so not a too hot chip ;-)
>
> 	You're probably pretty much OK with almost any AGP ATI card, I've
> had good results with a couple of 9200SE cards, an old All-In-Wonder
> (Hercules branded) and an X1650 - that last is probably a bit too hot
> though (fan on card and an extra power connector).

ceh from #netbsd.se hooked me up with a free Radeon 9200 (passive 
cooled). I put it in box, changed driver in xorg.conf to 'radeon', 
started X and ran glxgears:

8422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1684.248 FPS

My old Matrox did ~350 FPS.

So that means instant 3D accl on DragonFly x86_64 with MesaLib-7.4.4nb3.


I'm so stoked right now :)
Max