Date: 28 Jan 2003 14:14:12 +1300 From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel Message-ID: <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <20030127204647.GA373@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <00b501c2c647$eeb5ba60$0e0c32d4@niked> <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 13:55, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:10, James Pole wrote: > > Do you *have* to have OpenGL acceleration? > > > > If you don't, just simply use the open-source 'nv' driver for XFree86. > > It is much, much more stable than anything NVIDIA has to offer. The only > > downside is that you have to use software OpenGL... > > ... and it's slower for 2D as well. How can you tell the difference in 2D performance between 'nv' and NVIDIA's 'nvidia' driver? The difference is very very small -- unless you can back up your claims with 2D benchmarks which proves that NVIDIA's driver is indeed better at 2D... - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: james.pole@paradise.net.nz SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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