Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:09:20 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphic card that works? Message-ID: <BANLkTi=8okyuY8ed9O%2B1Kozp2CgK4Zde5A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik79=hEA2C_MG0Cmi6=Bs1e1tEqtw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110623221305.43b74d53@davenulle.org> <1308902182.1748.3.camel@xenon> <4E0477EA.10805@comcast.net> <BANLkTik0mPErWqD0Ty-C5ZPWV_LkDXvwOw@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTik79=hEA2C_MG0Cmi6=Bs1e1tEqtw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > Worse, NVIDIA has stated that they have no plans to ever supply Optimus > support for OSes other than Windows. > > Just to be clear, are you running the nv driver from Xorg or the separate > NVIDIA-driver port? Both should work, but nv will not work well. > I run the nvidia supplied drivers, and they do run well. Full 2D/3D acceleration and video codec acceleration (mplayer+vdpau) is a combination that no other graphics card/driver hits on FreeBSD. I used to struggle with the intel drivers, but they just got progressively slower and slower and less functional. Cheers Tom
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