From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 21:14:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E417637B41A for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 48709 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 04:14:00 -0000 Received: from ken.yumyumyum.org (192.168.0.2) by router.yumyumyum.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2002 04:14:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kenneth Culver To: Brian T.Schellenberger Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:14:58 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> <200204252214.33906.culverk@yumyumyum.org> <20020426035240.09A79BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020426035240.09A79BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Cc: tuc@ttsg.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200204260014.58462.culverk@yumyumyum.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 26 April 2002 03:52 am, you wrote: > It's not true that nothing's faster. My ATI can redraw the screen in a > small fraction of second under FreeBSD; as Tuc has discovered, this sam= e > operation might take months with an nvidia card. There are drivers out now that work for 2d...=20 > > Once the FreeBSD drivers are *actually* out, then the advice might chan= ge, > though I would still want to "vote with my dollars" for non-proprietary > solutions, but that will be a mere matter of principle. Right now, > principle and pragmatics both strongly suggest avoiding nvidia cards > whenever possible. I think we had the discussion before about this... some people don't care= if=20 it's open source or proprietary, as long as it works and is faster... > > If I *had* to have the faster graphics, I'd get an nvidia card and dump > FreeBSD in favor of Linux, but I don't, so I go the other way. Actuall= y > getting nvidia to work under FreeBSD right now is possible but it is *n= ot* > easy. I wouldn't do it unless I had a strong reason to do so and I > understood what I was facing. > I'd agree it's not easy to get working right now, but that's not a permen= ant=20 solution, and frankly, he already bought the laptop... so unless he wants= to=20 return it, there's not much of a choice :-) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message