On Monday 04 June 2007 12:31, Henry House wrote: > > >>>>> "h" == hajhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > h> I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few > > h> years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a > > proprietary h> driver. > > > > Well, I've been down this road many times in the past. I've had both > > nvidia and ati cards at various times... At least nvidia *offers* a > > driver! > > > > In the end, when I've tried the OSS vs proprietary drivers the > > proprietary ones are *always* better when it comes to 3D > > acceleration. I've used both, but it's always something like Google > > Earth that makes me go switch to NVidia's. > > > > For Fedora, both the atrms and the livna repositories distributes the > > pre-compiled drivers so a yum update should grab them. (Yes, I > > realize I'm speaking to a largely Debian crowd). > > > > The biggest problem with the commercial drivers is that at some point > > their installation system drops support for older cards and you have > > to make sure you start grabbing the backwards-compatibility snapshot > > instead (again, the rpm repositories above distributes compat versions > > too). > > Thanks all for your comments on the usability of the proprietary > drivers. However, that's not really what I was asking. I know that the > proprietary drivers work (at least with current kernels); I am > specifically interested in alternatives that I may be forced to used in > the unfortunate event that NVidia stops supporting the CPU/kernel/OS > combination I want to use before I retire the computer.
ah, there is the 'nv' driver which works ok... -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech