Hello Jesse! On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:04:33PM -0800, Jesse Lehman wrote: > Despite all my struggles to use other operating systems, I keep coming > back to NetBSD. It's so clean and simple. I've decided that NetBSD > is still worth using even without full NVIDIA support. I have a > pretty standard NVIDIA graphics card. By now, I've realized that > proprietary graphics accelleration with an NVIDIA card is simply not > possible in NetBSD. Fortunately, I don't use many graphics intensive > applications. So, I want to hear from anyone who uses the open source > nv driver. Here are a couple questions: Good! I used a nv card some months ago on my NetBSD 4.0 desktop (it was a``GeForce2 MX-200 32MB+TV''). However, ATM I have an ATI video card on this box. > * Can I stick with the Xfree86 included on the NetBSD install disk, or > should I use Xorg? I used x11/modular-xorg-server and x11/xf86-video-nv but it should work with XFree86 too. > * Can you still watch Flash videos / play Flash games or listen to > mp3s with no lag? Of course! For example you can watch flash videos with multimedia/mplayer without any problem. With the GeForce2 I used the xv video output (mplayer -vo xv) and it was pretty fast. > This didn't seem like a support request to me, so I sent it here. > I'll be grateful for any tips my fellow NetBSD users can provide. HTH and good luck Jesse! :-) PS: Probably you can enjoy the vesafb(4) SPLASHBOOT too (works great with the GeForce2). ;-) Ciao, Leonardo -- Leonardo Taccari (leot) | http://leot.netsons.org/
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