Hi Len, Hi all: I do use openGL for my molecular mechanics software and with the etch RC1 installation I got it working better than on previous use of nvidia drivers. Even in combination with povray-3.6 (provided the official package from povray is used; with the debian package 3.6 of povray I had troubles). Perhaps also because now I use gnome. I merely downloaded from unstable libmotif3_2.2.3-1.5.deb and installed it on my i386 etch (I am talking here about i386; on the amd64 machine I do mechanical/quantum/chemical computation only, so that I have not yet got X). The libmotif on etch does not afford support to openGL on my system. Not even before when I used nvidia drivers. In fact, I did the same as aboveon previous use of nvidia drivers, although I had glx installed. Probably I had a faulty installation. Now everything is fine.
No, I never play motion-picture, no time and I don't like it on the small screen. And the great time of motion-pictures is over. cheers francesco pietra --- Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:25:56PM -0800, Francesco > Pietra wrote: > > Thank you for answering, though my point was to > where > > learning as this my new installation without > nvidia > > works. Why should I install nvidia when it works > > perfectly and very speedy? Finally, everything was > > done through official debian and I suppose they > know > > how to do. > > The nvidia binary driver does DRI openGL. The free > driver is 2D only. > I also believe the free driver doesn't do video > playback acceleration > while the binary one does. Of course if you never > play video or use any > opengl programs, then there is no reason to use the > binary driver. > > -- > Len Sorensen > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]