From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 07:03:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2416A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from radicalv.com (secure.radicalv.com [216.118.91.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87C043D39 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: (qmail 87090 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2004 15:03:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.1.100) (66.41.18.160) by mail.radicalv.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 15:03:34 -0000 From: Eric F Crist Organization: AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc To: Nick Tonkin , Robert Downes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:03:30 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3FFD1929.2010608@lineone.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401080903.30610.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Subject: Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:03:42 -0000 On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:47 am, Nick Tonkin wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +0000, Robert Downes > > wrote: > > Nick Tonkin wrote: > >> Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have > >> been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one. > > > > Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64Mb) RAM, and I get an excellent > > picture with a Philips 109P2 monitor, using the nv driver for X. > > Are you using KDE 3? I'm going to experiment with some other window > managers, but I have observed that there are weird problems with color and > focus too. > > > Specifically, when I switch between one application window and another, > the contents of other wwindows and the desktop (eg the task bar icons and > text) sometimes become blurred and the colors shift (white becomes grey, > eg). At first I thought this might be an issue with Opera but I have found > it to happen with Konsole, KWord, etc. I am running KDE 3 with XFree86 4.3.0 on a laptop with no troubles at all. I don't think it's a problem with KDE, but rather your settings in XFree86 or even a hardware problem. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588