Re: Nvidia driver hassles -- fixed
From: Ed Hurst (ryter4him_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/03
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:53:56 -0600
NBK wrote:
> Ed Hurst wrote:
>
>>Finally! I stopped the intermittent crashing, etc. It was so tiring to
>>have such a fast GeForce 3, and to have everything so unstable.
>>
>>I got a Radeon 9000. Better fonts, better colors, and I really don't
>>care that glxgears dropped from 4200 FPS to 1200 FPS. In my opinion,
>>Nvidia neither knows nor cares to get it right for FreeBSD users.
>>
>>Ed Hurst
>>
>
> I agree. I have not been able to get the latest Nvidia drivers to work
> with my GeForce3 ti-200.
>
> Do u have hardware acceleration with the Radeon 9000?
>
Yes. Without it, I get the same ~200 FPS as everyone else. It takes
compiling the drm modules (not done by default) then loading same as the
one for nvidia. It's rock stable, though not 100% trouble-free. There's
something I'm experiencing only under FreeBSD that doesn't happen in
Linux: the screen still twitches.
Ed Hurst
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