From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 15:21:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B0E16A403 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:21:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail48.e.nsc.no (mail48.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA61413C469 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [84.202.103.126] (084202103126.customer.alfanett.no [84.202.103.126]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail48.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l2CFLH0f005710 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:21:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45F56F10.1090401@netscape.net> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:17:36 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45F541F3.5040309@planet.nl> <20070312141910.GA27605@xs2.xs4all.nl> <45F56665.7060006@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <45F56665.7060006@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:21:23 -0000 hxc@planet.nl wrote: > Martin Tournoij wrote: >> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP >> driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. >> >> If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a >> kernel without device agp. >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled="1" > Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in > FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 > fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package "nvidia-driver" (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled -- Tore