Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:29:00AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 22 September 2005 01:58, you wrote: Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers? All geforce series should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia releases there own closed source drivers. [...] And that's the problem. RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (one in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months. I can't downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on recent kernels. That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago. I use an MX400 on FreeBSD with RenderAccel enabled. I had to disable AGP completely (neither NvAGP nor FreeBSD AGP worked), because I was seeing crashes (screen and keyboard are frozen, but mouse pointer moves - a common bug with FreeBSD/Linux according to the nvidia forum). Since I disabled AGP, I had no more crashes with my card, even with RenderAccel enabled. HTH Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Friday 23 September 2005 01:04, Christopher Illies wrote: Since I disabled AGP, I had no more crashes with my card, even with RenderAccel enabled. No kidding? Is that configuration actually faster on your system? I may have to give that a shot. -- Kirk Strauser pgpLnVif45R8J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Thursday 22 September 2005 21:16, jason wrote: Is your card a GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics product? If so it is not supported by the 75 series driver, you would need the 70 series. That sounds like what you are experiencing. Nope. It's a GeForce2 MX 400 on an AGP card, and is listed in the README.txt for version 1.0-7676. It works, sort of: GLX is present and OpenGL apps run with the expected quickness. It's the broken 2D acceleration that's really putting a crimp in my usage. -- Kirk Strauser pgpsm2g8Cl5ER.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
Kirk Strauser wrote: I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the RenderAccel option. This machine has become glacially slow since some as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally like to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading probably won't help. Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card? Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers? All geforce series should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia releases there own closed source drivers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Thursday 22 September 2005 07:58, jason wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the RenderAccel option. This machine has become glacially slow since some as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally like to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading probably won't help. Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card? Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers? All geforce series should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia releases there own closed source drivers. Xorg doesn't even start on my GeForce FX 5700LE with the composite extension. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Thursday 22 September 2005 01:58, you wrote: Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers? All geforce series should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia releases there own closed source drivers. It's better than nothing, mostly, but still not up to par. There's a driver option called RenderAccel that makes it many times faster in certain operations, including ones that average users do a lot (like switching screens). Certain eye candy features like the ones offered by the Composite extension are completely unbearable without it. And that's the problem. RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (one in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months. I can't downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on recent kernels. That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago. -- Kirk Strauser pgpSVqeFdXhJw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 16:48, Garrett Cooper wrote: 5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or somewhere around the 6000 series, they are quite a bit better I've heard since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =). Thanks. Do you know of any FreeBSD-specific gotchas, and in particular whether RenderAccel works (or is still needed for tolerable performance)? -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies Not in particular. Any card in the upper-5000 series and any card in the 6000 will work with RenderAccel nicely, I believe. My card was just too ancient to really try out that feature, but it was a 4200 too. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
Kirk Strauser wrote: I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the RenderAccel option. This machine has become glacially slow since some as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally like to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading probably won't help. Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card? 5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or somewhere around the 6000 series, they are quite a bit better I've heard since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:48, Garrett Cooper wrote: 5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or somewhere around the 6000 series, they are quite a bit better I've heard since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =). Thanks. Do you know of any FreeBSD-specific gotchas, and in particular whether RenderAccel works (or is still needed for tolerable performance)? -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
