Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD )

2009-12-13 Thread Mario Lobo
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.

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Re: Nvidia amd64 driver (WAS: Root exploit for FreeBSD )

2009-12-13 Thread Rolf G Nielsen

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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