FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Dany
doesn't show anything bad. If I understand correctly they are two ways of installing Nvidia graphic cards and using them with Nvidia drivers : using Nvidia AGP support or FreeBSD AGP support. I took the default one as described at the bottom of this email. What is the preferred method

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:46:53AM -0500, Dany wrote: What is the preferred method ? The one that would give the most stability (I don't really care about performance and fps). Just one thought: if you don't want 3D support, just go with the 2D 'nv' driver -- that should be stable.

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Dany
That's a good idea but if I do that I will be missing the cool screensavers using OpenGL ;) Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:46:53AM -0500, Dany wrote: What is the preferred method ? The one that would give the most stability (I don't really care about performance and

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Dany
What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver or will that work with nv ? Dany wrote: That's a good idea but if I do that I will be missing the cool screensavers using OpenGL ;) Stijn Hoop wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:46:53AM -0500, Dany wrote: What is the

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 January 2004 10:38 am, Dany wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 10:21 am, Dany wrote: What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver or will that work with nv ? Dany wrote: That's a good idea but if I do that I will be missing the

Re: FreeBSD AGP or Nvidia AGP?

2004-01-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:21:33AM -0500, Dany wrote: What about DVD playing ? Does that take advantage of the Nvidia driver or will that work with nv ? No clue. You'll have to test it. Make sure that you have reverted all of the nvidia-driver port's files before you jump to conclusions though