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Date:      Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:27:49 +0200
From:      Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To:        Kirk Davis <Kirk.Davis@epsb.ca>
Cc:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Dell XPS M1210
Message-ID:  <4666C465.6080705@ultra-secure.de>
In-Reply-To: <DB9A31C316524A4A83E54A2C0D2065570311A9B0@Exchange24.EDU.epsb.ca>
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Kirk Davis wrote:
>
> Anyone have any experience with the video. I have always been a fan of
> NVIDIA and dedicated video ram but I have heard of some problems with
> NVIDIA + ACPI + DRI driver.  Without getting to much of a religious
> war... Here are my two choices:
> 	Integrated Intel(r) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 
> 	256MB NVIDIA(r) GeForce(tm) Go 7400 TurboCache
>
> Any comments on the video on any platforms?
>   


 From what I hear, the Intel GMA will give you the least problems.

The Nvidia Binary driver is "supposed" to work - but it's a long time 
that I've used it.

See this posting:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html
and this:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1262407&postcount=19

(Links taken from another posting I read in current@ just this morning)



cheers,
Rainer



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