From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 14:09:21 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 B2EC7106566B for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3C8FC1B for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxg33 with SMTP id 33so4751597vxg.13 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:09:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=P+TvXsYnS/zReFDxIjhTH9m4hx9r6GI2CImxzaVU77A=; b=AuMrc/xfkuUohwSfh7vLkIYkeDlbxTQBDWQr22Cc6eb9gacrUr/et1xuecs/3hQDk6 a0QVejCv31Nuq/UDjY/syq7eMShaAgVP5PKKActTB/L1ggGSvPSs2NMAkMYll4yt3yA0 Lk+aaX0pDKbkezHyNXjkLxkOEb8jssLfGNRXU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=ZRcYMf2XcLa2EX1Ly0MCd7sI82NrfKnaN5yOo63G1mwc/FyPzboyzK5/csYRnRafjQ d+KY0FNYqXuToZ0fTkDtHfBe9DO1c/3dd+KKypPRTJvW0IEHZYFV+zzRDGffXPF/06Qo 1K6JJbRQ59TCJPJpl+Mv1mJj1ZS/+CB4sybTo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.74.74 with SMTP id r10mr8373783vdv.212.1309183760667; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.108.4 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:09:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110623221305.43b74d53@davenulle.org> <1308902182.1748.3.camel@xenon> <4E0477EA.10805@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:09:20 +0100 Message-ID: From: Tom Evans To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphic card that works? 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: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:09:21 -0000 On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Worse, NVIDIA has stated that they have no plans to ever supply Optimus > support for OSes other than Windows. > > Just to be clear, are you running the nv driver from Xorg or the separate > NVIDIA-driver port? Both should work, but nv will not work well. > I run the nvidia supplied drivers, and they do run well. Full 2D/3D acceleration and video codec acceleration (mplayer+vdpau) is a combination that no other graphics card/driver hits on FreeBSD. I used to struggle with the intel drivers, but they just got progressively slower and slower and less functional. Cheers Tom