Trent Piepho wrote :

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Simon Roby wrote:
> > On 9/21/06, Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there any accelerated opengl for nvidia cards without using the
> > > binary drivers?  The x.org open source nvidia driver has support for Xv, 
> > > but
> > > not opengl.
> >
> > No, not really.
> >
> > What's the point of using an nVidia card if you're not going to use
> > their drivers?
> 
> Their drivers don't work with all system and all kernels. Unless you
> want opengl or xvmc, the open source drivers work fine.

Yeah, I also run the free driver. There isn't really any "point" in
doing so... I had the choice between an ATI card and an NVidia card...
both of which only support OpenGL with their respective proprietary
drivers. I tried the NVidia ones, but I get weird problems with fonts
not showing up in some places (Fedora Core development), and as I plan
on switching to the Xen kernel soon, and have seem that this is a
problem with the proprietary driver, especially on x86_64... well... :-(

I really love xmame's xv support. The day Hans hacked it in changed
my mame'ing experience! It was now easy and trivial to get just about
any (not too recent) game running full screen and fast with proper
aspect ratio etc. on any hardware. And I'm also part of those who think
that xmame's OpenGL display doesn't look as nice as the Xv one. But I
guess this can probably be fixed.

Matthias

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