From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 22:37:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372C016A42F for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:37:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F051F43D58 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:37:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:38 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 36D0D45041; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:38 -0800 (PST) To: Wesley Morgan In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 EST." <20060315170952.N31320@volatile.chemikals.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:37:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:37:42 -0000 > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST) > From: Wesley Morgan > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > That seems pretty bad. What kind of graphics chip is on that machine? > > I'm using an old Thinkpad R40 with a Radeon Mobility 7500 Chip (rv200) > > and that gives me 2000fps together with a first generation Pentium-M 1300. > > It's one of thie NVidia Quadro chips with 128mb ram and up to another 128 > shared. I haven't tried any tweaks at all with the config, the NV driver > doesnt even officially recognize the card, but it does load. > > > > > Wesley Morgan wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> > >> I haven't tried any sleep states yet. X runs at the native 1024x768 and > >> glxgears runs at about 760-790 FPS when one of the two cores is occupied > >> with something else and 815 when both are idle. > >> > > > > Are you using the nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig ports? These will normally provide much better performance than the xorg driver. You need to add nvidia_load to your /boot/loader.conf file and then run nvidia-xconfig to update your xorg config file. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634