From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 14:29:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B37CC16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA6443D48 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E6F222400 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92642-07 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (janus.daycos.com [204.26.70.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA5A22218C for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:29:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200509191556.44034.kirk@strauser.com> <43325622.5090504@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <43325622.5090504@ec.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2155127.Xi9pHJ8Xfj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:29:27 -0000 --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--