From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 23:19:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F878106564A for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:19:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4398B8FC16 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 32832 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Mar 2009 22:53:02 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1238539982; bh=vClic1be7S0wDlwj8E8lc24zy2tx4unxrirLnqUn0Cw=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dPN4beqlWVOEtyzmC2SuEsgeenjUd3JYUtCESxOMv+HXhVC6kMuGHxswynG6cJtmuwEeSfV/0tmY3gxjfZa7fySvvYibZ3IcnOK+KIHNTCvXGAu2hr0wLsnK0payzn4bToBveZ5luVeaC85I2Aq3v9BezDOcTmSFC9ZhH1ggEo0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=i4f6enA3/3UDHqBwNdsS2ygMpyldxGsj/b5u4uukwIUXrXbjV57z606DNCKFOZZlg8eK8f67bVgqxVxA3xC18hs/zjan2IBrRUYIUjzUhUVt3ll8gh7qj2sVn2OPKJ1AQ3GUND9joFmvYptRN8ibfEIjbPx4kTOAE1mE4lkjYH8=; Message-ID: <111557.32583.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: DpgkIv4VM1lGWHRsoLCY_BjPODOx8PY7fwhu7eMcDNZ7lbjXw0AemcllEgDB08EhiVpe9qjublk.9eUhEreKNwhuvlaCwVn5Byxn.lrP4PGFYLYUcjs4zauNW2GZnvt9RxoHfXpC18Gj1H_OK08vUK1G6xLq31ZVHLcun6hDUf0N58qBuol6InxmKHcTOgM2vWsKMWfBtqw.d29KsMfwDQzNANPHS1c5toZNBVRWOXrbuol2haSOsqP5kq4MruWWKyvsHMf9hlwgyMeF8C54WmGIRu3GnGnLfjn1hZcYqOM4_SJvHUvX7hUW7edwx9bO3WUIqdaIkEfRfMYuD7KoTvJHtw-- Received: from [67.163.171.128] by web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:53:02 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh To: FreeBSD , Adam Vandemore In-Reply-To: <49D27157.5030809@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: too many video drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:19:44 -0000 --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Vandemore wrote: > From: Adam Vandemore > Subject: Re: too many video drivers > To: "FreeBSD" > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3:39 PM > Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > > Hi, > > I am rebuilding ports and realize that i have too > many input/video > > drivers for x-win installed. i know i need nv driver > since my graphic > > card is from nvidia, and i want to deinstall all > others. but i am not > > sure if its safe to do so, e.g. i am confused by > "xf86-video-chips" > > since i don't know what kind of "chip" > that stands for. can someone > > tell me which are basics and which are safe to remove? > thanks!! > > > > TFC > > Depending on what versions of things you use the > nvidia-driver port and > /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau may be > replacements for the nv driver. Honestly I'm not really > sure what the xf86-video-chips > port does, but I don't think it's related to nvidia > and is perhaps for older video chipsets. x11/nvidia-driver is the driver released by nvidia. It doesn't work on architectures other than i386 and has some other limitations (breaks certain components of KDE4, for one other thing - see the 'black windows bug'.) It does support 3d acceleration using the nvidia GPU, though. The x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv port is the open source Xorg driver for nvidia chipsets. It doesn't support 3d acceleration using the GPU. Neither is a perfect solution, and the disparity has been an issue for years now... - mdh