From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 21:11:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317B716A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C61043D60 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:11:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (nieser.net [194.109.160.131]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAMLBFrL088388 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:11:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <43838977.8000009@xs4all.nl> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:11:19 +0100 From: Hans Nieser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hernandez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <438332CB.9040800@ywave.com> <20051122151252.GE24165@dementia.beyondnormal.net> In-Reply-To: <20051122151252.GE24165@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express? 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:11:29 -0000 Mike Hernandez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0800, Micah wrote: > >>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >>>As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers >>>for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are >>>binaries from Nvidia. This for me would cross that card >>>off my list. >> >>Just to correct this bit of mis-information, there are two drivers >>available for nvidia. The nv driver is an open source driver provided >>by xorg, and the nvidia driver is a closed source driver provided by nvidia. >> > > > And the nvidia driver is in the ports tree, and works just fine. > Just watch out if you're messing with the composite extension, glx, etc. > I've been using it with my GeForce 6800 Pci-X card for months now with > no problems (of course the composite stuff is still a bit flaky but > it's still new). > I have no choice but to use the closed nvidia driver, because when I use the "nv" driver, Xorg tends to freeze after a few minutes. Mike, out of curiousity, when you say that you have been using your card without troubles, do you actually mean it performs well too? Because I just installed Xorg+Gnome on my Dell Inspiron 510m laptop (equipped with a Pentium M 1.7GHz / 512 MB RAM / Intel i810 855GM graphics chip), and it depresses me to see that it greatly outperforms my desktop machine even in 2D. Things like dragging and resizing windows and the text rendering in gnome-terminal is clearly a lot smoother. ;(