Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-23 Thread Christopher Illies
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.

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-22 Thread jason
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-22 Thread RW
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
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.

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
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

Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
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

Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

2005-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
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