From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 14:10:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301C737B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C2343F3F for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) Received: from c-67-166-109-159.client.comcast.net ([67.166.109.159]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2003071121100901100jbtt4e>; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:10:09 +0000 From: Mike Porter To: current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:09:40 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030711011955.GA41243@buffy.brucec.backnet> In-Reply-To: <20030711011955.GA41243@buffy.brucec.backnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Message-Id: <200307111509.47001.mupi@mknet.org> Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:10:23 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 pm, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:41:40PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote: > > The new nvidia-driver was unstable for me as well. So much so that I > > deinstalled it so I could get some actual work done. > > I've found the nvidia driver to be very stable, using a new -CURRENT > build and the NVidia agp driver. > > > > > > > > >After the cvsup, rebuild process, the nvidia driver seems to > > >work, except for the problems mentioned above. > > > > > >Brian Since we seem to be trying to doucment sucess/failure with the nvidia=20 drivers... it works fine for me, the only problem I am having appears to be related to= =20 one of my hard drives (the system keeps retryiung, eventually locking up,=20 leaving the machine off long enough for the HDD to cool down a bit invariab= ly=20 works to allow me to boot, simply power cycling or 'reboot'ing doesn't). =46WIW, I am running a Geforce2MX 200 on 4.8-R. Relevant bits excerpted be= low=20 for future reference: =46reeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 9 16:59:58 MDT 2003 root@x1-6-00-04-5a-44-c9-a2.comcast.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MUKAPPA Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel Celeron (701.59-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x686 Stepping =3D 6 =20 =46eatures=3D0x383f9ff <...> nvidia0: mem 0xd8000000-0xdfffffff,0xd6000000-0xd6fff= fff=20 irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 <...> ON the old nvidia driver, I couldn't use GL without crashing, now, it works= =20 fine. Granted I haven't done anything like repeatedly running glxinfo or=20 anything (is there a need/desire for this?) Overall, the speed results are= =20 quite noticeable, my system is now capable of full screen video playback,=20 (provided the video I am playing back was encoded at sufficient=20 resolution--which isn't the fault of the driver!). In glxgears, on the old= =20 drivers, I was getting less than 200fps, on the new driver, I get +-395fps= =20 using the OS's GART driver, and +-400fps using Nvidia's. Not a huge=20 difference, but it does appear consistent. the GL screensavers I never tri= ed=20 under the old drivers, since it didn't really seem to like GL, but under th= e=20 newer drivers, I am getting between 20 and 30 fps, which is for full screen= ,=20 depending, of course, on what else my system is trying to do in the=20 background.... mike =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/DyeYY30jZzkECLcRAueRAJ0VJq4AceFtzcCXPuF/sNqC3X9r+gCgx0sR B6dFPfAiyYnnZJXUJMnvD7o=3D =3DWRNk =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----