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Date:      28 Jan 2003 14:40:54 +1300
From:      James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel
Message-ID:  <1043718054.96617.18.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1043717032.85849.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20030127204647.GA373@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <00b501c2c647$eeb5ba60$0e0c32d4@niked> <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost> <1043717032.85849.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:23, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I have found 24 bit displays are snappier with the nvidia driver - I
> don't have a benchmark to back it up though.

OK, I'll give you that one. I use 16bits here -- I'm not fussed about
having lots of colours.

> I might run one if I can be bothered tonight.

If you can run one, the results would be intresting. BTW, what
benchmarks are there for benchmarking 2D performances?

> Another advantage of the nvidia driver is that it provides Xv support
> for non GeForce chipsets.

Mplayer's X11 output is fast enough for most people. On my 1700+ it
rarely uses more than 10% of the CPU. Anyway Mplayer (and most of the
other video players) do all many of its maths operations using the
MMX/SSE/3DNow! exenstions and lots of processors supports at least one
of these x86 exenstions.

- James

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