On Monday December 16 2002 07:02 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
> Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the
> default "nv" driver. Check the documentation. You need to install
> the "nvidia" drivers to get that.
>
> Ric
I didn't bother responding to the first post of the sort that
"there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the default "nv"
driver" because I reckon'd most discerning people usin XF 4.2.1,
would recognize it as wrong, foolishness, or at least blinded by
unawareness.
For those with nvidia cards, all that's need to verify is to run
'glxinfo' with >= XFree 4.2.1 and the included OSS driver, before
tainting their system with a guess (nVidia's closed driver). Another
pertinent test is that 'glxgears' won't even run with less than the
3d/accel enabled 4.2.1 OSS XFree diver, 'nv'. You might also take a
look in a 4.2.1 XF86Config-4 and see the lines (before it's tainted
with nVidia edits),
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and further down...
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)"
Driver "nv"
^^^^^^^^^^^
Option "DPMS"
3d/accel is now a _FACT_ (albeit limited) for nvidia with XFree86
OSS drivers, unfortunately (M$) direct rendering isn't. On the plus
side the XFree driver doesn't introduce the unauditable, unsupported
conflicts, bugs and security holes that the closed sourced, binary
only secret crap that nVidia releases does or might, and the XFree
driver is, and will be supported now and into the future.
http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=427&lang=en
A respected, former Mandrake developer (Civileme), responsible for
file system and ide/scsi testing, also reported file system
corruption traceable to nVidia's drivers.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&m=102633257532555&w=2
" NVIdia drivers _are_ unstable and have been known to cause
filesystem corruption. Yes, I have tested this, extensively."
As always Y'allsMMV, jus take the blinders off ;> Once you install
nVidia's kernel and GLX taints, you no longer own your system.
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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