Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:09:40 -0600 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? Message-ID: <200307111509.47001.mupi@mknet.org> In-Reply-To: <20030711011955.GA41243@buffy.brucec.backnet> References: <BAY8-F51uutSgcOrBLS00000bd7@hotmail.com> <20030711011955.GA41243@buffy.brucec.backnet>
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 pm, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:41:40PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote:
> > The new nvidia-driver was unstable for me as well. So much so that I
> > deinstalled it so I could get some actual work done.
<snip>
>
> I've found the nvidia driver to be very stable, using a new -CURRENT
> build and the NVidia agp driver.
> > >
<snip>
> > >
> > >After the cvsup, rebuild process, the nvidia driver seems to
> > >work, except for the problems mentioned above.
> > >
> > >Brian
Since we seem to be trying to doucment sucess/failure with the nvidia=20
drivers...
it works fine for me, the only problem I am having appears to be related to=
=20
one of my hard drives (the system keeps retryiung, eventually locking up,=20
leaving the machine off long enough for the HDD to cool down a bit invariab=
ly=20
works to allow me to boot, simply power cycling or 'reboot'ing doesn't).
=46WIW, I am running a Geforce2MX 200 on 4.8-R. Relevant bits excerpted be=
low=20
for future reference:
=46reeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 9 16:59:58 MDT 2003
root@x1-6-00-04-5a-44-c9-a2.comcast.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MUKAPPA
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Intel Celeron (701.59-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x686 Stepping =3D 6
=20
=46eatures=3D0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,=
CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
<...>
nvidia0: <GeForce2 MX 100/200> mem 0xd8000000-0xdfffffff,0xd6000000-0xd6fff=
fff=20
irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
<...>
ON the old nvidia driver, I couldn't use GL without crashing, now, it works=
=20
fine. Granted I haven't done anything like repeatedly running glxinfo or=20
anything (is there a need/desire for this?) Overall, the speed results are=
=20
quite noticeable, my system is now capable of full screen video playback,=20
(provided the video I am playing back was encoded at sufficient=20
resolution--which isn't the fault of the driver!). In glxgears, on the old=
=20
drivers, I was getting less than 200fps, on the new driver, I get +-395fps=
=20
using the OS's GART driver, and +-400fps using Nvidia's. Not a huge=20
difference, but it does appear consistent. the GL screensavers I never tri=
ed=20
under the old drivers, since it didn't really seem to like GL, but under th=
e=20
newer drivers, I am getting between 20 and 30 fps, which is for full screen=
,=20
depending, of course, on what else my system is trying to do in the=20
background....
mike
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