Around the time the nvidia sw versions started using libvdpau my video
performance began declining. I didn't take too much notice of it until the
recent drivers caused my computer to regularly crash (w/ those IRQ nobody cared
messages...)!
My card is a humble AGP 7600GS with which I am able to get around 98FPS on a
Quake 3 demo benchmark. The current drivers simply crash when benchmarking,
and the new nouveau drivers net a whopping 25FPS!
The reason I bring all this up is because the nvidia-legacy173-driver
slackbuild is really the one I need to use now. The README says it is for
GeForce5 which is why I avoided it in the past. Yet looking on nvidia's site
they show that both sw versions in SBo's SlackBuilds should work for me. Maybe
the PCIE version of my card is appropriate with the new drivers, but mine is
certainly not.
Perhaps the READMEs can be changed to help people in the future if they run
into issues as I did. Clearly the legacy drivers are not only or GeForce5
series.
--phillip
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