Re: NVidia driver stability?

Evan Dower wrote:

> After following all the instructions at 
> http://www.soulwax.net/nvidia/faq.shtml _very_ carefully and compiling 
> nvidia-driver WITH_FREEBSD_AGP, WITH_NVIDIA_HACKS, and with 
> FORCE_AGP_RATE, my system was dramatically slower and substantially 
> _less_ stable. (I had to switch to another computer to write this 
> email). Interestingly, whenever I compile the kernel without 
> optimizations, network activity becomes _very_ slow.
> E
> aka Evan Dower
> Undergraduate, Computer Science
> University of Washington
>
>> From: "Will Saxon" <WillS_at_housing.ufl.edu>
>>
>> I just installed these drivers on my machine, which uses a Geforce4 
>> Ti4200. I had 10 glxgears processes running in the background and was 
>> running glxinfo over and over, and while the glxgears processes were 
>> not really spinning very fast nothing crashed or anything like that.
>>
>> Machine is running a June 27 -current with Xfree86 4.3.0. I compiled 
>> the nvidia-driver port with -DWITH_FREEBSD_AGP and -DWITH_NVIDIA_HACKS.
>>
>> -Will
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I am running a Geforce 4 on freebsd 5.1 with the freebsd drivers _at_ 
nvidia's site. they just released new drivers not long ago. Simply d/l 
it, untar it and run make setup....modify the xf86config and reboot. 
takes about 5 min.