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Old 14th June 2010
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With the VESA VBE driver, nothing is offloaded to the GPU for acceleration.. it's just a dumb framebuffer, so rendering graphics will eat up your CPU time.

Driver development is a commendable goal, but unfortunately nVidia does not release documentation for their graphics hardware.. available drivers are reverse engineered, obfuscated, or proprietary.

Just a small note, the detection of an nVidia azalia(4) device is common these days, but unsupported, this is for using audio over HDMI cables, apparently it's being worked on though.

Last edited by BSDfan666; 14th June 2010 at 04:37 PM.
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