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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