From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 22: 4: 9 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 3CEC137B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D7243F79 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18dOqT-00061a-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:03:41 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18dOqS-000616-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:03:40 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0S63TRV084347; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:03:29 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0S63MF6084345; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:03:22 +0600 (NS) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:03:22 +0600 From: Max Khon To: James Pole Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Paul Mather , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel Message-ID: <20030128120322.A84242@iclub.nsu.ru> 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 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost>; from james.pole@paradise.net.nz on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +1300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Envelope-To: james.pole@paradise.net.nz, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 hi, there! On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +1300, James Pole wrote: > > > Do you *have* to have OpenGL acceleration? > > > > > > If you don't, just simply use the open-source 'nv' driver for XFree86. > > > It is much, much more stable than anything NVIDIA has to offer. The only > > > downside is that you have to use software OpenGL... > > > > ... and it's slower for 2D as well. > > 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... does 'nv' driver support xv? /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message