From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 16:12:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF9416A4DB for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.urz.tu-dresden.de (mailgate.urz.tu-dresden.de [141.30.66.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61D044068 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from der_julian@web.de) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by mailgate.urz.tu-dresden.de with esmtp (exim-4.22) for id 1BQDOg-0002E3-Hi; Wed, 19 May 2004 00:49:18 +0200 Received: from mailgate.urz.tu-dresden.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rks24 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08342-06 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 00:49:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [141.30.207.25] (helo=jmmr) by mailgate.urz.tu-dresden.de with esmtp (exim-4.22) for id 1BQDOf-0002Dm-UV; Wed, 19 May 2004 00:49:17 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: From: Julian Stecklina Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:49:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: (darren@chatcanada.net's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 22:32:30 GMT") Message-ID: <86brkluz9u.fsf@web.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.5 (celery, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-TUD-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at rks24.urz.tu-dresden.de X-TUD-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on rks24 Subject: Re: best video card for bsds X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:12:07 -0000 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