Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? Message-ID: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 EST." <20060315170952.N31320@volatile.chemikals.org>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST) > From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > That seems pretty bad. What kind of graphics chip is on that machine? > > I'm using an old Thinkpad R40 with a Radeon Mobility 7500 Chip (rv200) > > and that gives me 2000fps together with a first generation Pentium-M 1300. > > It's one of thie NVidia Quadro chips with 128mb ram and up to another 128 > shared. I haven't tried any tweaks at all with the config, the NV driver > doesnt even officially recognize the card, but it does load. > > > > > Wesley Morgan wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> > >> I haven't tried any sleep states yet. X runs at the native 1024x768 and > >> glxgears runs at about 760-790 FPS when one of the two cores is occupied > >> with something else and 815 when both are idle. > >> > > > > Are you using the nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig ports? These will normally provide much better performance than the xorg driver. You need to add nvidia_load to your /boot/loader.conf file and then run nvidia-xconfig to update your xorg config file. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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