On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between > > nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. > > I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to > head > comparisons on nvidia for ages. Last I heard, nv was still way behind > in terms of features supported, but that can change quite quickly. > > Anyone else got current info on this? It's a question I'm sure many > folk > would like an answer on
The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver. You can try the nouveau* drivers but they're still experimental. * http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list