Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

Christopher Illies christopher.illies at ki.se
Thu Sep 22 23:00:56 PDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:29:00AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 01:58, you wrote:
> 
> > Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers?  All geforce series
> > should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia
> > releases there own closed source drivers.
[...] 
> And that's the problem.  RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (one 
> in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months.  I can't 
> downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the 
> Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on 
> recent kernels.  That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my 
> hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago.

I use an MX400 on FreeBSD with RenderAccel enabled. I had to disable
AGP completely (neither NvAGP nor FreeBSD AGP worked), because I was
seeing crashes (screen and keyboard are frozen, but mouse pointer
moves - a common bug with FreeBSD/Linux according to the nvidia
forum).
Since I disabled AGP, I had no more crashes with my card, even with
RenderAccel enabled.

HTH

Christopher



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