Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-11-02 Thread Gilles Cafedjian
Hello, Indeed, switching to vesa driver in xorg.conf removed all the windows lags. I don't need any kind of 3D acceleration, so vesa is just enough to run Emacs and resizing some windows. I think the best will be to port Nouveau to OpenBSD, but it's not a priority. As I said, vesa is just good

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-11-02 Thread Comète
Hello, I've tried vesa too and it works but it is limited to 1024x768... if you have any tips to allow 1440x900 with vesa, i take it... Thanks Morgan Le 02/11/2013 16:10, Gilles Cafedjian a écrit : Hello, Indeed, switching to vesa driver in xorg.conf removed all the windows lags. I don't

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-11-02 Thread Gilles Cafedjian
Hello I think vesa driver allow only built-in resolution of your bios. I saw in my Xorg.0.log: ... (II) VESA(0): Not using mode 1440x900_60.00 (no mode of this name) ... (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) VESA(0): *Built-in mode 1024x768 (**) VESA(0): *Built-in mode 800x600

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-11-02 Thread Brad Smith
On 02/11/13 11:57 AM, Gilles Cafedjian wrote: Hello I think vesa driver allow only built-in resolution of your bios. I saw in my Xorg.0.log: ... (II) VESA(0): Not using mode 1440x900_60.00 (no mode of this name) ... (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) VESA(0): *Built-in mode

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-11-02 Thread Eric Furman
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013, at 01:55 PM, Brad Smith wrote: On 02/11/13 11:57 AM, Gilles Cafedjian wrote: Hello I think vesa driver allow only built-in resolution of your bios. I saw in my Xorg.0.log: ... (II) VESA(0): Not using mode 1440x900_60.00 (no mode of this name) ... (--) VESA(0):

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-30 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:36:43PM +0100, Gilles Cafedjian wrote: I have the same problem but on a dell laptop with integrated NVidia chip. The chip is NVidia Geforce 8600M GS and since I upgraded to 5.4 my laptop is unusable (very slow window movement). I'm thinking of reinstall 5.3 to

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-29 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On 10/28/13 11:44, Brett Mahar wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:20:32 +0100 Peter J. Philipp p...@centroid.eu wrote: | I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia | driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to | 5.4 and it indeed is. | |

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-29 Thread Gilles Cafedjian
I have the same problem but on a dell laptop with integrated NVidia chip. The chip is NVidia Geforce 8600M GS and since I upgraded to 5.4 my laptop is unusable (very slow window movement). I'm thinking of reinstall 5.3 to have a working laptop. I can't change GPU chipset. There is a solution

nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-28 Thread Peter J. Philipp
I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to 5.4 and it indeed is. So I'm wondering what driver I should use because the choppyness of moving windows is laughable, a sad kind of laugh. Do you

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Peter J. Philipp wrote: I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to 5.4 and it indeed is. So I'm wondering what driver I should use because the

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-28 Thread Brett Mahar
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:20:32 +0100 Peter J. Philipp p...@centroid.eu wrote: | I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia | driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to | 5.4 and it indeed is. | | So I'm wondering what driver I should use