Re: nvidia experiences

["Jesse Lehman" <jesseblehman%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the info.  I'm keeping NetBSD dual-booted with SLAX and I love both.

On 5/29/08, Leonardo Taccari <leonardo1990%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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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