From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 02:48:19 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 C8A7C106566C for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 02:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+WJ=5b491d5d@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CA18FC13 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 02:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+WJ=5b491d5d@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F8616499F for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 22:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE64323E49A for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 22:31:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 03:31:45 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080526033145.662624e1@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080525225428.GA71710@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <4839E278.3060208@magichamster.com> <20080525225428.GA71710@osiris.chen.org.nz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 26 May 2008 02:48:19 -0000 On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:54:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote: > Support for the nVidia on FreeBSD from the vendor is also incomplete: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html > The feature request from nVidia appears to have stalled That article says: "While the following is focused on the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics drivers, we believe the interfaces discussed below are generally applicable to any modern high performance graphics driver." Aside from the amd64 specific issues, it's doesn't seem to imply that NVIDIA cards are particularly disadvantaged, just that NVIDIA are the only company to make an effort with FreeBSD. > In short, nVidia cards are usable, but performance can be > exceptionally bad. The xorg nv driver is certainly poor, but is there any reason to believe that the nvidia driver is inferior to drivers for other graphics cards. I've never heard any great claims for their 3d performance.