So, between Nouveau, Vesa and VGA, what would you recommend for an NVidia GForce FX 5600 (old one, I know)?
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Eric Padman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 05:49 +0100, Bruno Miguel wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was trying to find a tool in gNS repositories that could help me >> easily configure my xorg.conf to work with the free nvidia driver and >> I stumbled across envyng. This little tool seems to suggests the >> instalation of non-free NVidia and ATI drivers, as you can see by this >> screenshot: >> http://pictload.plixweb.fr/pics/0d436ebe47fbeb0aa048c5ccfcc852a7.png >> >> Since I'm writing this email, does anyone know a simple way to make >> Xorg work with the free NVidia drivers? I think mine is using the Vesa >> driver. At least, that is the interpretation I make from this: >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Configured Video Device" >> EndSection >> >> Recording screencasts with this can be a real pain, a real *slow* pain. >> >> Peace; >> Bruno Miguel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gNewSense-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > Hi, > > Xorg in Ubuntu (and therefore gNewSense) seems to be configured with > displayconfig-gtk as root. It is in the gnome menu but it is not shown > by default. It is labelled as Screens and Graphics in the Other section. > > I have a ~6 year old Dell which has the free Intel drivers and my > xorg.conf shows the same Device section. > > The x.org wiki [http://wiki.x.org/wiki/nv] says that the free NVidia > (nv) video driver doesn't offer hardware acceleration which would > explain the slowness when recording screencasts. > > Cheers, > Eric (MentalNotes) > >
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