On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:35, Aaron Walker wrote:
I just bought a new video card for my 2nd machine (my windows gaming
box), and so I thought I would replace the ATI Rage128 I have in this
box (Gentoo 1.4) with the GF4 Ti4200 that I am taking out of the windows
box.
I was just wondering which installation method would be better, or if it
even matters:
a) download and install the driver from Nvidia's site
b) follow the directions of the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide
(which is basically just emerge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, then edit
config files, and load nvidia module)
I would prefer option A, but I just wanted to run it by the list first
before I do it.. I finally have this gentoo box running *perfectly*
(just installed it last week.. couldn't be more pleased), and I don't
want to mess anything up ;)
Option B, for a few reasons.
1) Nvidia's GL libs don't overwrite xfree's because portage handles it
using opengl-update, so it's easy to switch back and forth to diagnose
problems etc.
2) Automatic setup of everything that needs setting up
3) Automatic notification of new driver releases
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