Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <parish@magichamster.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4839E882.2010005@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <4839E65C.9070809@otenet.gr> References: <4839E278.3060208@magichamster.com> <4839E65C.9070809@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Don't know about CompuViz, but if you would like to try compiz fusion, > I am a bit tempted to point you to this article (maybe because I am the > author :) > Ah, compiz - that's what I was thinking of ;-) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/compiz-fusion/ > > This will answer your questions on installing nvidia drivers and also > getting 3D effects and compiz-fusion to work. > Note that there is no nvidia-supplied (read: proprietary) driver for the > 64bit version of FreeBSD. The community 'nvidia' driver works fine, > although no 3D and 2D performance is somewhat limited. I've used a > number of cards with FreeBSD (7300GT, 7300Go (laptop), 6600GT, 6200) > and never had problems. > > The FX series should also work, but why not buying a newer card? You can > get new entry-level nvidia cards for very little money. Well, it's down to money really but I'll take a look at the price of new cards. Thanks. Mark
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