From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 06:11:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF78A16A405 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com (omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.93.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682FC13C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.132.228.157]) by omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070315061106.RNBX25724.omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:06 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([144.132.228.157]) by oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070315061106.WBOJ21236.oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 67839 invoked by uid 501); 15 Mar 2007 06:10:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:55 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: Sean Bryant Message-ID: <20070315061055.GA67812@duncan.reilly.home> References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy , Nikolas@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Britton Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:07 -0000 On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote: > Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated > but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work > for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. > It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver > is working just fine for me. I have tried the vesa driver. Indeed I re-use it sometimes when I power-cycle the computer, because one of the quirks of the nv driver is that it doesn't seem to be able to put the card into a state where it actually displays a useful or stable image. Once the vesa driver has that sorted out, though, the nv driver seems to work reliably for me, and seems to be slightly faster, thanks (I think) to some 2D acceleration. Other things the nv driver won't do for me: power control of the monitor from screen-saver, and ability to drive my display at its rated 1600x1200 resolution (logs claim that it's restricted to 1280x1024 by BIOS, whatever that means...) I don't think that the vesa driver can do either of those either, though. Cheers, -- Andrew