Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Ovens
Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they appear to be a better

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Ovens
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Don't know about CompuViz, but if you would like to try compiz fusion, I am a bit tempted to point you to this article (maybe because I am the author :) Ah, compiz - that's what I was thinking of ;-)

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:54:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Support for the nVidia on FreeBSD from the vendor is also incomplete: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html The feature request from nVidia appears to have stalled That article

Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?

2008-05-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:55:39PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: [...] So, could you tell me, are your comments about the Nvidia card driver performance dealing with the Nvidia-supplied driver and OpenGL libs they have, as expressed in the FreeBSD-ports supplied (from Nvidia code) Nvidia