What laptop do you recommend?

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Try to rely completely on auto detection and don't enter any features of
your monitor in your xorg.conf (such as modes or frequencies). Lately
the auto detection seems to work much better.

Wesley Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST)
>>> From: Wesley Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org>
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>
>>>> That seems pretty bad. What kind of graphics chip is on that machine?
>>>> I'm using an old Thinkpad R40 with a Radeon Mobility 7500 Chip (rv200)
>>>> and that gives me 2000fps together with a first generation Pentium-M
>>>> 1300.
>>>
>>> It's one of thie NVidia Quadro chips with 128mb ram and up to another
>>> 128
>>> shared. I haven't tried any tweaks at all with the config, the NV driver
>>> doesnt even officially recognize the card, but it does load.
>>
>> Are you using the nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig ports? These will
>> normally provide much better performance than the xorg driver.
>>
>> You need to add nvidia_load to your /boot/loader.conf file and then run
>> nvidia-xconfig to update your xorg config file.
> 
> With the nvidia driver, I end up with only a partial display -- ie, the
> LCD stretch kicks in and a full 75% or more of the display is "off
> screen". Haven't been able to figure out why...
> 
> 

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