> > 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 concur: clearly things are not as bad as some have expressed (noting also that the current situation is bad, regardless of the card). As for Nvidia as a vendor, nothing to add. > 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). I run 2048x1536 + 1600x1200 -xinerama setup here with two low-end GeForce 6200 pci-e cards and nv. Works reasonably well. > 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 Ditto: I run Fluxbox and seldom use any GUI-applications at all. I haven't tried any video, let alone any 3d. Works reasonably well under these settings. - Jukka.
