Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:50:19 +0200 From: Richard Mace <macerl@telkomsa.net> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help building/running SDL/OpenGL code Message-ID: <200912221950.19322.macerl@telkomsa.net> In-Reply-To: <20091222173131.GA1645@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200912221736.20023.macerl@telkomsa.net> <200912221906.47622.macerl@telkomsa.net> <20091222173131.GA1645@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tuesday 22 December 2009 19:31:31 you wrote: > > What version of the nvidia driver are you using? > The one in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173. I have to use this for the aging FX 5200. > Have a look at the x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau port. Maybe that works > for you? > > (BTW, problems like these are why I avoid proprietary drivers like the > plague) I'm rendering a whole bunch of molecules (spheres), moving a camera and at the same time doing quite a bit of CPU intensive numerical integration of a whole slew of coupled ordinary differential equations -- I need the speed of the GPU (read proprietary driver) to relieve the CPU and avoid a slide show. (This works very nicely with dual core CPUs: I use one thread for the rendering and another for the numerics.) I'll keep digging (and getting educated, I guess). Incidentally, in Debian GNU/Linux they have a system of clever "diverts" which avoid these kinds of library clashes. Thanks -Richard
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