graphic card choose for openbsd x64

hitest · 11-23-2011, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by vharishankar

I am aware that the OpenBSD installation can be done with the downloadable CD, but you get the most basic system possible and you need to spend a lot of time in building up the system through downloading large ports. The same result can be achieved with PC-BSD (for a desktop) with lesser effort at the cost of fine-grained customization.

I have ports installed on my OpenBSD system, but, I installed all of my applications using pkg_add which was quick and painless. You are not forced or required to use ports on OpenBSD. PC-BSD uses a similar packaging system as OpenBSD, it just has a graphical front-end to pkg_add. Each to his own. I am glad you are happy with PC-BSD.

vharishankar · 11-23-2011, 06:52 AM

Yes, that is one part of it. I am glad to know there are OpenBSD desktop users as well, because you will know answers to "how do I enable ACPI" and "how do I make suspend/resume work" etc.? I always found myself hitting a brick wall with NetBSD regarding desktop usage because there's so little info on the 'net about new features in the NetBSD kernel like ACPI and the NetBSD documentation is a bit outdated (it talks about APM). OpenBSD seems more updated that way.

I also read somewhere that OpenBSD has good support for suspend/resume on laptops which is better than FreeBSD. The only issue is getting the drivers for graphics cards and other laptop-specific stuff like inbuilt webcams.

It also amazing that the BSDs are catching up to Linux in terms of driver support in spite of so few developers in comparison. But Linux's sheer strength is numbers and so you tend to get quite a lot of quirky and unusual peripheral devices supported.

hitest · 11-23-2011, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by vharishankar

I always found myself hitting a brick wall with NetBSD regarding desktop usage because there's so little info on the 'net about new features in the NetBSD kernel like ACPI and the NetBSD documentation is a bit outdated (it talks about APM). OpenBSD seems more updated that way.

I abandoned NetBSD for the same reason you did, that is, my hardware was not supported. OpenBSD works for me.

sasser · 11-23-2011, 11:51 AM

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OpenBSD and NetBSD don't seem to be tailored to cater to desktop users looking for gloss and shine.

I'm not looking for gloss and shine, just for a responsive system.
I was running openbsd 4.8 on a intel P4 @2GHz with Nvidia TNT2 M64 card and xfce runs acceptable (maybe some times a little slow), but the mobo died and I have to look for something else. I was asking the question because I want to change that ancient TNT2 with a newer card too, but I'm limited to AGP interface and something cheaper.

vharishankar · 11-23-2011, 08:36 PM

In case of older cards there should be no problem with the Xorg Open Source drivers (nv, ati or radeon) with 2D-acceleration only support. So any old ATi or NVIDIA AGP card should do.

hitest · 11-24-2011, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by sasser

I'm not looking for gloss and shine, just for a responsive system.
I was running openbsd 4.8 on a intel P4 @2GHz with Nvidia TNT2 M64 card and xfce runs acceptable (maybe some times a little slow), but the mobo died and I have to look for something else. I was asking the question because I want to change that ancient TNT2 with a newer card too, but I'm limited to AGP interface and something cheaper.

As you are an OpenBSD user I would stick with what you know works. From my experience OpenBSD is very good at identifying hardware.
Good luck!