From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 08:18:23 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 C78B316A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from qsrv01sl.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv01sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.92.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610A813C465 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.132.228.157]) by omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070315061101.RMYY25724.omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:01 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([144.132.228.157]) by oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070315061101.WBNU21236.oaamta07sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:11:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 67839 invoked by uid 501); 15 Mar 2007 06:10:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:55 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: Sean Bryant Message-ID: <20070315061055.GA67812@duncan.reilly.home> References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:44:27 +0000 Cc: freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy , Nikolas@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Britton Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) 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: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:23 -0000 On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote: > Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated > but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work > for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. > It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver > is working just fine for me. I have tried the vesa driver. Indeed I re-use it sometimes when I power-cycle the computer, because one of the quirks of the nv driver is that it doesn't seem to be able to put the card into a state where it actually displays a useful or stable image. Once the vesa driver has that sorted out, though, the nv driver seems to work reliably for me, and seems to be slightly faster, thanks (I think) to some 2D acceleration. Other things the nv driver won't do for me: power control of the monitor from screen-saver, and ability to drive my display at its rated 1600x1200 resolution (logs claim that it's restricted to 1280x1024 by BIOS, whatever that means...) I don't think that the vesa driver can do either of those either, though. Cheers, -- Andrew