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From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability?
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On 2003-07-12 14:46 +0000, Evan Dower wrote:
> After following all the instructions at 
> http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling 
> nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with FORCE_AGP_RATE, 
> my system was dramatically slower and substantially _less_ stable. (I had 
> to switch to another computer to write this email). Interestingly, whenever 
> I compile the kernel without optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ 
> slow.
> E
> aka Evan Dower
> Undergraduate, Computer Science
> University of Washington
> 

Did you try using the NVIDIA AGP interface?

The majority of mail I get indicates that the NVIDIA AGP stuff works
better than the FreeBSD one.

I'm not sure about your network problems, perhaps you should look at the
driver for clues.

-- 
Munish Chopra