Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 14:38:43 +0930, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:18 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: I do recognize there are plenty of open source people out there working to offer alternative choices, and I support them too. I made a choice to use

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 22/05/2009 21:29, Mike Cloaked a écrit : Kevin Kofler wrote: Stop considering proprietary drivers acceptable, they are not. Kevin Kofler So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and he/she just

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:36:56 +0200 François Patte wrote: 1- My lab in my university has contracts with companies and I have to choose in a panel of offers. For computers, it is Dell and Dell's offer is with nvidia graphic. What can I do? Are you a student, a research assistant, a scientist,

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:36:56 +0200, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: 1- My lab in my university has contracts with companies and I have to choose in a panel of offers. For computers, it is Dell and Dell's offer is with nvidia graphic. What can I do? My work

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Robert L Cochran
I've read through this thread as well, and I too would like to thank everyone for their views. I too work in a large organization where I have absolutely no choice in the hardware and software selections (for 98,000+ active computer workstations.) I don't have a voice in those selections

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 23/05/2009 09:55, Frank Cox a écrit : On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:36:56 +0200 François Patte wrote: 1- My lab in my university has contracts with companies and I have to choose in a panel of offers. For computers, it is Dell and Dell's offer is

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: ATI is actually easier since you don't need to do anything special. However, I think right now there are issues with the level of support by the free drivers. The HD ones have no 3D support, the older (but still manufactured and sold) ones do. Of course most new

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-23 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:18 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: I do recognize there are plenty of open source people out there working to offer alternative choices, and I support them too. I made a choice to use Fedora outside of my work place. But in making that choice I also decided to be

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Cloaked
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Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 08:29pm on Friday, May 22, 2009 (UK time), Mike Cloaked scrawled: So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an Nvidia graphics card - are you suggesting that people on this list

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Robin Laing
Steve Searle wrote: Around 08:29pm on Friday, May 22, 2009 (UK time), Mike Cloaked scrawled: So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an Nvidia graphics card - are you suggesting that

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Mike Cloaked wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Stop considering proprietary drivers acceptable, they are not. Kevin Kofler So imagine that there is a newbie Linux user starting to read this list and he/she just happens to own one single machine that just happens to have an

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, I am going to buy a Dell laptop (Latitude E6400) with nvidia graphic card Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With PC-Card Is this card working under

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
François Patte wrote: Is this card working under fedora 10? It's NVidia, so you'll get at best 2D support. Don't buy NVidia. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread lostson
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 02:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: François Patte wrote: Is this card working under fedora 10? It's NVidia, so you'll get at best 2D support. Don't buy NVidia. Kevin Kofler Nvidia cards work just fine with fedora you just need to use the rpmfusion repos and

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have the Latitude E6400 and it is pretty nice. I'm using it right now with Fedora 11. I'm using the 160M video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 0233 Flags: bus master, fast

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
lostson wrote: Nvidia cards work just fine with fedora you just need to use the rpmfusion repos and install kmod-nvidia ... which is NOT part of Fedora and NOT supported in any way (any bug you file which is partly or entirely caused by the nvidia driver will be closed CANTFIX, as only NVidia

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: ... which is NOT part of Fedora and NOT supported in any way (any bug you file which is partly or entirely caused by the nvidia driver will be closed CANTFIX, as only NVidia can fix it; we will NOT add workarounds to

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Shaw wrote: The fact is, that for most situations for most people and especially if you want any 3D performance, you don't have a lot of options. My notebook computer has Intel GM965 integrated graphics, they actually provide fine 3D performance with no proprietary crap. And that's not

Re: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

2009-05-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 20:25:58 -0500, lostson lost...@lostsonsvault.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 02:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: François Patte wrote: Is this card working under fedora 10? It's NVidia, so you'll get at best 2D support. Don't buy NVidia. Kevin