Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:04:24 +0200 From: Christopher Illies <christopher.illies@ki.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card? Message-ID: <20050923060424.GA5445@Klabautermann.ks.se> In-Reply-To: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com>
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:29:00AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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. [...] > And that's the problem. RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (one > in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months. I can't > downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the > Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on > recent kernels. That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my > hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago. I use an MX400 on FreeBSD with RenderAccel enabled. I had to disable AGP completely (neither NvAGP nor FreeBSD AGP worked), because I was seeing crashes (screen and keyboard are frozen, but mouse pointer moves - a common bug with FreeBSD/Linux according to the nvidia forum). Since I disabled AGP, I had no more crashes with my card, even with RenderAccel enabled. HTH Christopher
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