Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Wesley Morgan <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST) >> From: Wesley Morgan <[email protected]> >> Sender: [email protected] >> >> 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... -- This .signature sanitized for your protection _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"