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Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel
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
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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

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