[kde-freebsd] New beta nVidia driver 177.70 and KDE4

[Henry Hu]

I'm using the driver, and it seems like that the new driver improved
performance in many ways, including KDE4 and firefox. But I found that
3D performance is not as good as before.
When I was trying different InitialPixmapPlacement values, I found
that setting it to "2" or "1" results in different gtkperf results.
If I set it to "1", tests related to GtkComboBox and GtkComboBoxEntry
runs much faster, but tests related to GtkTextView runs much slower.
If I set it to "2", tests related to GtkComboBox and GtkComboBoxEntry
runs much slower, but tests related to GtkTextView runs much faster.
I would like to know there is something available to test the Qt4 performance.

2008/9/5 Matt <datahead4 at gmail.com>:
> Nvidia has a relatively new beta binary driver available for FreeBSD
> as described at:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118603
>
> I noticed last night that there is also a performance tuning guide for
> this driver version on Linux at:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118088
>
> The steps shown on this Linux tuning guide (two new Xorg config
> options and two nvidia-settings options) appear to work for the
> FreeBSD driver as well (although I don't have new enough hardware to
> test the GlyphCache setting).  Running with these new settings today
> has resulted it what appears to be greatly improved performance in KDE
> 4.1 with desktop effects enabled.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Matt
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