Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:32:47 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20080526033247.GA93266@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <483A189B.4000700@telenix.org> References: <4839E278.3060208@magichamster.com> <20080525225428.GA71710@osiris.chen.org.nz> <483A189B.4000700@telenix.org>
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:55:39PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: [...] > So, could you > tell me, are your comments about the Nvidia card driver performance dealing with > the Nvidia-supplied driver and OpenGL libs they have, as expressed in the > FreeBSD-ports supplied (from Nvidia code) Nvidia driver?? I have them compiled > under FreeBSD-current, because a friend recommended them as the best available, > is that wrong? Is there better? I am not aware of any pure-public driver for > those cards, but I just am not very well up on their details, so I want to be > sure of your meaning, making sure I have you right here.. I've got a nVidia card on a FreeBSD-7/amd64 system, and so the only driver I can use is the xorg-nvidia driver. The driver from the nVidia is not an option for me. If you have an i386 system, the driver from nVidia is *MUCH* faster than the xorg driver. Queries to nVidia about the possiblity of an amd64 compatibile driver led me to the kernel-feature list that they would like to have before being able to release a driver form amd64 hosts. HTH. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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