Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

[Gary W. Swearingen]

...
 Saw this on /.
...
   Hugh writes The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has
   announced[1] that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD
   driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for
   people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available.

From what I read, some people have learned not to get exited until
nVidia says has released -- will be releasing being an old story,
often told.  Apparently, XFree86 manages to get enough info out of ATI
and some other companies to write open-source drivers for them in a more
timely manner.  (My new Radeon 7000 works nicely under XFree86 4.2.)

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Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

[David Haworth]

 If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better
 than 5 FPS) I'll go buy one right now ;-)

dave@blink:~ uname -a
FreeBSD x.y.z 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #8: Wed Aug  7 23:17:27 BST 2002 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X  i386


drm0: ATI Radeon QW 7500 (AGP) port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xce00-0xce00,
0xd000-0xdfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 64MB
info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0

dave@blink:~ glxgears
2570 frames in 5.0 seconds = 514.000 FPS

(thats not changing the size of the gears window)

dave@blink:~ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20010402 AGP 1x x86/MMX
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, 
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, 
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, 
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, 
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, 
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, 
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_MESA_resize_buffers, 
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_PGI_misc_hints, GL_SGIS_pixel_texture, 
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
--
0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x25 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Slow
0x29 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  0 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 Slow

 
I play UT in 3d accellerated mode and it's pretty playable in 1024x768. I haven;t 
tried uninstalled drm-kmod and using the new dri stuff that anholt has put into the 
ports tree yet, thats apparently supposed to TL which will hopefully up the frame 
rate and allow me to play in 1280x1024 (the native res of my tft). the fact that 3d 
worked under freebsd was the reason I bought my ati radeon 7500.

dave

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Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

[John Bleichert]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, David Haworth wrote:

 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:27:25 +0100
 From: David Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card
 
  If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better
  than 5 FPS) I'll go buy one right now ;-)
 
 dave@blink:~ uname -a
 FreeBSD x.y.z 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #8: Wed Aug  7 23:17:27 BST 2002 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X  i386
 
 
 drm0: ATI Radeon QW 7500 (AGP) port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xce00-0xce00,
 0xd000-0xdfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 64MB
 info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
 
 dave@blink:~ glxgears
 2570 frames in 5.0 seconds = 514.000 FPS
snip

Wow! That's great news! I may have to eat my hat... I'll definately be 
considering one of these for my next video card (probably next month).

Thanks for the news!

JB


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Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

[Gary W. Swearingen]

John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Wow! That's great news! I may have to eat my hat... I'll definately be 
 considering one of these for my next video card (probably next month).

Consider the 8500 model carefully, as it might not be supported well yet.

http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/
Has a table with many makes listed.

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php  
Specific to ATI cards; with TV support of some kind.

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