On 10-09-03 02:37 AM, Frank Smith wrote:
>     Hi All
> 
>  
> 
>     There are actually three different drivers; envyng, nv, and nvidia
>     (glx).  It does not really matter but I am curious which driver is
>     actually being used.
> 
> 
> Seems to be the NV driver now
>  
> 
>     I have had far better luck in
>     getting the driver from nvidia.com <http://nvidia.com>.  The install
>     process is a bit more
>     manual but it does work.  Lately I have been avoiding both of them.
>     Intel, for all their problems, have given me far less grief than
>     either nVidia or ATI/AMD.  With the radeonhd driver and newer ATI/AMD
>     devices, I have hope that things will get better in the future.
> 
> 
> When I try this it fails on the Kernel which is an RT one on here,
> I assume that we cant build the driver against that
> 
The answer is definitely maybe.  In the past I have had both success and
failure with the nVidia (and ATI fglrx) binary drivers on RT patched
kernels.  To be fair I have had the same problems with most proprietary
3rd party kernel modules (Vmware I am looking at you and your crappy
modules!!!).

I would not say that you could not use the binary drivers, but I would
avoid that hardware if possible (newer ATI devices use the radeonhd
driver which is part of the stock kernel and should work better with RT
kernels, I have not tested this yet).

Hth,

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