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 seem to have trouble with nVidia cards > they appear to be a better choice. > > So, after over a decade of brand-loyalty to ATI (when I started with > FreeBSD back in the mid-90's ATI cards were the only ones I could find > that would run X at better than VGA resolution) I'm going to switch to > nVidia.
Heh. I was just thinking about going the other way. One of the main problems with the nVidia on X is that the xorg-nvidia driver is very basic; this can be demonstrated by going to a Javascript heavy page (eg http://www.xwiki.org) using firefox. The X-server just slows to crawl when trying to scroll the site. The behaviour is not exhibited with xorg-intel driver, as a counter-example. 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 for the time being (more correctly: I couldn't locate news on any updates to on the 'Net). In short, nVidia cards are usable, but performance can be exceptionally bad. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"