From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 17:54:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACDA37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from scan.pnc.com.au (scan.pnc.com.au [203.13.174.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A7F343F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterh@criten.org) Received: (qmail 4171 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jan 2003 13:06:43 +1100 Received: from unknown (HELO dialup-252.122.221.203.acc03-high-pen.comindico.com.au) (203.13.174.1) by scan.pnc.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jan 2003 13:06:41 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:56:01 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Hoskin X-X-Sender: peterh@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.au To: James Pole Cc: Daniel O'Connor , Paul Mather , "" Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel In-Reply-To: <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20030128125328.L1701-100000@extortion.peterh.dropbear.id.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> <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, James Pole wrote: > 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... Who needs a benchmark? Play an mpeg file. If its an older CPU (below 600mhz) you usually end up missing quite a few frames if you use the nv driver. Also, it doesn't look quite right. Although, with the NVIDIA driver things seem to be better. Regards, Peter Hoskin peterh@criten.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message