Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:31:29 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rolf G Nielsen <lazlar@lazlarlyricon.com> Subject: Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD ) Message-ID: <200912131031.29126.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <4B244716.3090505@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <200912122209.30186.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4B244716.3090505@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On Saturday 12 December 2009 22:44:54 Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: > >> Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the > >> makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm > >> eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum > >> post (I don't have the address handy at this computer, but I know it's > >> somewhere in the mailing list archive) from Zander at Nvidia corporation > >> saying it's on its way. > > > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120 > > Thanks Mario and George. Just installed it and rebooted now. :D You're welcome Rolf! The driver DOES rock, doesn't it? How is it working for you? any instabilities? I am having some issues with virtualbox and KDE4. KDE has 2 options for composite: OpenGL and xRender I have composite enabled with openGl. If any vbox guest (winedows actually) has 3d acceleration enabled, the host freezes completely. only the reset button works ! I have to completely disable 3d accel on the Win guests. But if composite is done with Xrender, the 3d accel on the guests doesn't freeze the host, but I loose a lot of performance, smoothness and most of the desktop effects on KDE. I followed the advice on http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498 to enable HPET and that seemed to improve things on this issue but I still have to keep 3d disabled Other than that, EVERYTHING else works perfectly. nVidia is much superior than my onboard radeon HD 3300, which I unceremoniously dumped for a GeForce 9800 GT. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)
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