From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 22:30:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402B3106567E for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 22:30:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33058FC15 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 22:30:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [86.153.243.228] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K0OjG-0004Vy-P6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:14 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994D81CC6C for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4839E882.2010005@magichamster.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080524) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4839E278.3060208@magichamster.com> <4839E65C.9070809@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <4839E65C.9070809@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1K0OjG-0004Vy-P6 X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD? 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: Sun, 25 May 2008 22:30:37 -0000 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