On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:11:48 -0500 Tim Crone via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2015 6:27 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes" > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > <rant> 7 is no improvement, > > I love W7 (professional, never used home). On the same machine it > booted faster, and did about 10% better than XP transcoding video. It > also seems to handle memory better long term. I have all the > animations and whatever off, of course. That's nice to know. I'm hoping 7 will work tolerably well on our Dell Inspiron 600m. > > The only reason the precision 360 video cards, (one is a quattro FX) > > I thought all the Nvidia cards had a monolithic driver that installed on > any Windows. They also have a closed source Linux driver, though if you > are only doing rdesktop you will probably be happy with the open source > drivers. I have two Nvidia cards in my Fedora box at work. Our computer has an ASUS motherboard that has an ATI video card built in. I bought an EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR Geforce 8600gt 256mb to use instead since it has more horsepower. With the open-source drivers that came with CentOS 5, displaying of Google Maps, particularly changing zoom levels, was intolerably slow. I then started using the NVidia binary-only drivers. These required a new build and new install every time the kernel was updated. At some point, I found the videos on YouTube had really strange color. I called NVidia and spoke with a very helpful fellow. He told me how to monkey things around so the videos looked proper. These changes had to be done with each kernel update, too. I finally got tired of all the hassle and bother (plus another reason I don't remember now) and yanked the NVidia card. I started using the built-in ATI card. There is now no hassle and things just work. I'm planning on not using NVidia cards on Linux. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
