Choosing a video card - Nvidia or ATI

Chou, Ching-Chiang mustang at bsd.ce.ntu.edu.tw
Sun Jan 11 18:31:22 PST 2004


Here is what Nvidia says:
"If you believe you have found a bug or have a problem you feel you need
 assistance with that can't be found elsewhere, you can send email to the
 following address: freebsd-gfx-bugs at nvidia.com "



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Narvi" <narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: "Michal Pasternak" <michal at pasternak.w.lub.pl>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Choosing a video card - Nvidia or ATI


>
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Michal Pasternak wrote:
>
> > Dev Tugnait [Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:34:11AM -0500]:
> > > I use nvidia geforce 2 60mb never crashed X never had a panic or
reboot it runs so much more better on bsd than linux. If you have a low
budget nvidia all the way. Current uptime with X on desktop is 45 days and X
hasnt crashed ever since i ran it :) and yes good movie and dvd playback too
> >
> > Well, which drivers do you use?
> >
> > How often do you use OpenGL applications?
> >
> > My NVidia works okay with "nv" driver (no hw accel) from XFree86, yes,
that
> > driver is stable indeed.
> >
> > But, NVidia's own drivers are unstable. Maybe your results are better,
> > because you have other card, than mine.
> >
>
> Does anybody know if there is a way to feed data back to Nvidia about
> instabilities?
>
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