From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 01:40:46 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 A309C16A422 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:40:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188CB43D45 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (cpe-024-211-118-154.sc.res.rr.com [24.211.118.154]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2G1eVqv025080; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:40:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2G1eUsS049995; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:40:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan To: Kevin Oberman In-Reply-To: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: <20060315200342.W48679@volatile.chemikals.org> References: <20060315223738.36D0D45041@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:40:46 -0000 On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> 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. > > 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