Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:51:33 +0200 From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia driver? Message-ID: <AANLkTim4ggXq%2BF2uunNLZoWBZCrGMZOF0MuT46ZeuJKJ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <iftucp$rrv$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <iftucp$rrv$1@dough.gmane.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > For ages now I've been buying ATI cards for my home dual-boot machine, > but it looks like the driver situation is only getting worse so I'm > thinking of switching camps to nvidia. > > How good, well supported and easy to setup is the binary nvidia driver > for FreeBSD? Is amd64 supported? How about 9-current / HEAD? > > (and an almost offtopic question - what is the NV equivalent of a > [45]6xx mid-range card?) Never had an issue with the binary driver, i am using it for almost two years now. I switched to amd64 from day one that the beta driver became available. After clang got committed to HEAD i follow CURRENT (amd64) with zero problems too. There is a port for the binary driver, couldn't be easier to install. Try a GT240 based card, it has support for VDPAU feature set C too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Table_of_PureVideo_.28HD.29_GPUs
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTim4ggXq%2BF2uunNLZoWBZCrGMZOF0MuT46ZeuJKJ>