Mario Lobo wrote:
On Saturday 12 December 2009 22:44:54 Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
Mario Lobo wrote:
On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote:
Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the
makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm
eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum
post (I don't have the address handy at this computer, but I know it's
somewhere in the mailing list archive) from Zander at Nvidia corporation
saying it's on its way.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120
Thanks Mario and George. Just installed it and rebooted now. :D
You're welcome Rolf!
The driver DOES rock, doesn't it?
How is it working for you? any instabilities?
I am having some issues with virtualbox and KDE4.
KDE has 2 options for composite: OpenGL and xRender
I have composite enabled with openGl. If any vbox guest (winedows actually)
has 3d acceleration enabled, the host freezes completely. only the reset
button works ! I have to completely disable 3d accel on the Win guests.
But if composite is done with Xrender, the 3d accel on the guests doesn't
freeze the host, but I loose a lot of performance, smoothness and most of the
desktop effects on KDE.
I followed the advice on
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498
to enable HPET and that seemed to improve things on this issue but I still
have to keep 3d disabled
Other than that, EVERYTHING else works perfectly. nVidia is much superior than
my onboard radeon HD 3300, which I unceremoniously dumped for a GeForce 9800
GT.
I haven't tested it out that extensively yet. I tried installing
games/quake2lnx, and it installs fine, but I get no graphics at all,
just a black window, but since I haven't tried it on amd64 before, it
might be that it doesn't work well on 64 bit. But since I'm not really a
gamer, I don't worry much about it, though it would be fun to get it
running.
I'm running Windowmaker as my window manager, and it doesn't make use of
any OpenGL AFAIK.
So basically all I've tested is that xv works for playing video with
mplayer and running OpenGL xscreensaver hacks. Both seem to work flawlessly.
Compiling the driver was a bit of a hassle, since it depends on Linux
compatibilty by default, and I haven't got that enabled. And since I've
enabled MODULES_OVERRIDE in my kernel config to include only those
modules I actually use, nvidia.ko couldn't find linux.ko. I solved it by
commenting out a #define line in nv-freebsd.h.
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