Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:00 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card? Message-ID: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <43325622.5090504@ec.rr.com> References: <200509191556.44034.kirk@strauser.com> <43325622.5090504@ec.rr.com>
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--nextPart2155127.Xi9pHJ8Xfj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 22 September 2005 01:58, you wrote: > Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers? All geforce series > should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia > releases there own closed source drivers. It's better than nothing, mostly, but still not up to par. There's a drive= r=20 option called "RenderAccel" that makes it many times faster in certain=20 operations, including ones that average users do a lot (like switching=20 screens). Certain eye candy features like the ones offered by the=20 "Composite" extension are completely unbearable without it. And that's the problem. RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (on= e=20 in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months. I can't=20 downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the=20 Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on=20 recent kernels. That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my= =20 hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart2155127.Xi9pHJ8Xfj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBDMr+w5sRg+Y0CpvERAn8QAKCD631S3xpC+UhMUsoq7VwbpLnbVACePirz v22JRvuu5wYIIqKLIHZar9I= =PHEX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2155127.Xi9pHJ8Xfj--
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