From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 4 1:23:53 2002 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 C065F37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (smtp-2b.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D63E43E9C for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.pole@paradise.net.nz) Received: from 203-79-103-94.tnt14.paradise.net.nz (203-79-103-94.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.103.94]) by smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8089E764; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:23:15 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Re: stability & nvidia drivers? From: James Pole To: Stijn Hoop Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20021204084739.GA66523@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1038993730.30598.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 04 Dec 2002 22:22:10 +1300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Stign, Using a TNT2 card, things are more stable than yours -- it actually works reasonably well. But I still have a few problems. Once in a while, the driver seems to do weird things and thus my monitor goes weird and everything goes crazy. It's hard to describe, but it looks like the monitor can't handle the data coming from the video card so it stuffs up the image and eventually it goes in power-saving mode to protect itself from blowing up. This happens with either the NVIDIA driver or the FreeBSD AGP GART driver. It can be solved simply by pressing any key and everything goes back to normal. Needless to say, this is very annoying. It happens in either 2D or 3D mode. This has never happened with the "nv" driver or in the console so this points to the NVIDIA driver as being the source of problems. Nowdays, I just use the "nv" driver and software rendering since I have a 1700+ CPU with 256MB ram which is plenty for most of the 3D games I play (such as Railroad Tycoon II Demo from /usr/ports/games/rt2_demo/). If I was you I'ld just stick with the "nv" driver or sell the video card and get an ATI or Matrox AGP card. They're apparently more stable than NVIDIA when it comes to 3D/OpenGL rendering, althought I may be wrong. - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message