From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 23:25:05 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 299061065675 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F3D8FC16 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so2039072qwb.7 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:25:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ck0Who/8M8lMM1nlkJxEjDwBr/gj1bISzbkYh2Cbp3M=; b=x5U3TpVu1v+lFzF3SXDj7uJOWH6gUd1NkZmF6yEx+seHP+CsePcQGXSDvUxJ0FuGBN n0tsEzS6wYak3rcD3l8MP0Ev1WwQxhNSRx8nreJo313v4kT3w/GjsV+uGg2rwRHkgpB2 iJkv9YzOUeLVWXEsSio4c+sXa3LcPQNZCOqmU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=F+3+arFDrbg922Jdnk38AXc/iajhm661VtqunkRlZbYSzCez43xAlBH/UKfyEN4n+h DfD7F+cifW4nzlbchWhauyqw1pj417F5FEL0q80elYtHhhILPtfSilZ0rEPxii3tPkOA I59qMWoowu3urzyjRoufjw4ORdARst2si/7Ew= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <111557.32583.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <49D27157.5030809@gmail.com> <111557.32583.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:24:49 -0600 Received: by 10.220.45.211 with SMTP id g19mr2880307vcf.86.1238541904259; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Adam Vandemore , FreeBSD Subject: Re: too many video drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:25:05 -0000 On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:53 PM, mdh wrote: > > --- 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. I've got an nVidia at work (nvidia0: ) with the above port installed, with kde4. No problems. Been running for a couple weeks. When was this bug announced? > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >