On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:24:20PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > Yes. NVIDIA refuses to make a useful open source driver. It is barely
> > functional and it generally sucks really really bad. Stay away from
> > NVIDIA when doing open source.
>
> I'm going to express a very small and highly qualified exception to this
> comment...
>
> I have found that OLD nvidia cards (16M-ish ones) work pretty darned
> well with the base nv driver for OpenBSD. I'd say "just worked", other
> than in a multi-headed config, it goes a bit stupid and tried to run the
> monitors at 2048x1600 or similar absurd resolution (which actually, one
> of my monitors DID come up in...shocking the heck out of me and probably
> the monitor, too).
>
> So, I'm not going to argue the point on new cutting edge stuff, but on
> my old junk, the stock, OpenBSD-provided nv works pretty well.
>
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100" rev 0xb2
> "NVIDIA Vanta" rev 0x15 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 not configured
> "NVIDIA Vanta" rev 0x15 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 not configured
> (one AGP 1280x1024, two PCI 1280x1024, 1600x1200)
>
> I felt this important to mention because when I was originally building
> fluffy, my three-headed system, I was looking for NON-nv cards because
> of past discussions, and wasn't having much luck finding non-nv PCI cards.
> I finally bought a couple junk, unmarked cards, figured, "let's see what
> they do", and they came up GREAT..as nvidia cards using the nv driver.
>
> Granted, my usage is fairly basic. The only multi-media anything I have
> on this system is xmms. When flipping rapidly between screens, I see
> the screen redraw ('specially on my PCI-based 1600x1200 screen), but it
> is no big deal. Much bigger problem is moving the mouse from the far
> right hand screen to the far left hand screen or visa-versa...and that
> is a (dis) function of my cluttered desk, not the video driver. :)
same here. that nVidia Vanta (agp) in the dmesg I posted in this
thread works quite well for playing movies/watching tv, etc.
it actually works better than the ATI Radeon 9200 SE (also agp) I have
in another machine, both for 2d and 3d (well, glxgears at least is ~ 5x
faster on the nVidia ... but that might have something to do with the
nVidia being in an i386 and the Radeon being in an amd64).
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