Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:23:42 -0500 From: sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? Message-ID: <3F108A6E.1070008@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F99xT5nwZvIPNT000087de@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F99xT5nwZvIPNT000087de@hotmail.com>
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Evan Dower wrote: > After following all the instructions at > http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling > nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with > FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially > _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this > email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without > optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow. > E > aka Evan Dower > Undergraduate, Computer Science > University of Washington > >> From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> >> >> I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 >> Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was >> running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were >> not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that. >> >> Machine is running a June 27 -current with Xfree86 4.3.0. I compiled >> the nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_FREEBSD_AGP and -DWITH_NVIDIA_HACKS. >> >> -Will >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I am running a Geforce 4 on freebsd 5.1 with the freebsd drivers @ nvidia's site. they just released new drivers not long ago. Simply d/l it, untar it and run make setup....modify the xf86config and reboot. takes about 5 min.
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