Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:49:17 +0200 From: Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best video card for bsds Message-ID: <86brkluz9u.fsf@web.de> In-Reply-To: <fa.nnc93jq.15j0h0k@ifi.uio.no> (darren@chatcanada.net's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 22:32:30 GMT") References: <fa.mal5job.11k8tjj@ifi.uio.no> <fa.nnc93jq.15j0h0k@ifi.uio.no>
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darren@chatcanada.net writes: > I've always had an nvidia card with my bsd, I use the 'nv' driver and not > nvidia's driver as it is experimental and without updates. I generally > leave my display running and swap in and out of text mode without any > problems. I've never had a crash because of video except when using > nvidia's own driver, which is simple to fix, telnet in, find the .X0-lock > file, cat it, kill the pid. I am quite pleased with the 4365 version of nVidia's driver. I never had a panic/freeze with it, but then again I've never left it running mor then some days. :) The only drawback is that you cannot use libkse/libpthread. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Signed and encrypted mail welcome. Key-Server: pgp.mit.edu Key-ID: 0xD65B2AB5 FA38 DCD3 00EC 97B8 6DD8 D7CC 35D8 8D0E D65B 2AB5 Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. - Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
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