From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 10 18:28:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628A837B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.231.240]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:27:36 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g0B2S5403260 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:28:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:28:05 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <20020110212805.A3040@nc.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from joeo@cracktown.com on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:28:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org joeo@cracktown.com: |Matthew N. Dodd: |> I dunno, I've seen a middle of the road K7 pull down over 1500fps with a |> GF2MX (Under Linux of course.) | |Yeah, I'm impressed with the nvidia cards too, when they work, under |linux. ... | |On the other hand I hear a lot of cussing during Friday evening fragfests |when lockups occurs in the cubes next to mine. Especially after either a |new linux kernel is released and/or a new set of nvidia drivers is |released... That's not to imply my setup is lockup free itself, and the |former observation is probably more a reflection of the upgrade mindset |the surrounding users have... No, I think your first assumption is probably on-target. I've read and heard many Linux users griping about the instability of the NVidia Linux 3D drivers, some who aren't upgrade maniacs. I know some NVidia/Linux users personally that forgo HW 3D in Linux completely and run the stock XFree86 stuff to gain stability in X for their Linux system. Yeah, 1500fps would be cool! But I gladly take less to have my system stable in FreeBSD (stability is the main reason I stick with FreeBSD anyway). And where bugs occur, I can take solice in that my hopes for patches aren't all hanging on a few Matrox engineers, but on everyone in out there in Open Source land running XFree86 with a Matrox card. My point isn't to "bash NVidia" here, but just to second that the NVidia/Linux 1500fps currently doesn't come without a stability trade-off, whose resolution is in completely in NVidia's hands. Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message