From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 19:53:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B7B1065673 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@usermode.org) Received: from vps.hungerhost.com (vps.hungerhost.com [216.38.53.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05048FC1B for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from netblock-66-245-217-187.dslextreme.com ([66.245.217.187] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by vps.hungerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaAiP-0007lo-3V for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:30:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4D235937.6080708@usermode.org> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:30:31 -0800 From: David Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <201101041251.p04Cpgv4087234@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <201101041251.p04Cpgv4087234@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps.hungerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - usermode.org Subject: Re: Nvidia driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:53:12 -0000 On 01/04/2011 04:51 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ivan Voras 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. > > Is it really that bad? I once bought an nvidia because of it's FreeBSD support. After about three months I realized that they didn't really support FreeBSD all that well. The drivers were old, and frequently kept me from upgrading my kernel. I was also getting a lot of kernel panics. I switched to ATI and have never looked back. The drivers are open source, and support the functionality I need. They don't support the latest HD5xxx cards, but that's okay because I'm perfectly happy running HD4xxx cards. -- David Johnson