From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 06:00:56 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 9D15B16A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:00:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christopher.illies@ki.se) Received: from humle.it.ki.se (humle.it.ki.se [130.237.101.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C2243D46 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christopher.illies@ki.se) Received: from Klabautermann.ks.se (gate2.ks.se [193.10.63.101]) by humle.it.ki.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8N60rSQ016015 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:00:53 +0200 (MEST) Received: by Klabautermann.ks.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DB396C113; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:04:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:04:24 +0200 From: Christopher Illies To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050923060424.GA5445@Klabautermann.ks.se> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509220929.04829.kirk@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:00:56 -0000 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