Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? Message-ID: <20060315200342.W48679@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net> References: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST) >> From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> >> 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. > > 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. With the nvidia driver, I end up with only a partial display -- ie, the LCD stretch kicks in and a full 75% or more of the display is "off screen". Haven't been able to figure out why... -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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