On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:25:56 -0500, Curtis wrote in message <BANLkTi=as_+wuu_7v7jl2vy0ofob1_d...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Video drivers? I differ from Arnt's philosophy and make sure I run > with nvidia graphics hardware + the nvidia drivers on all my linux > machines ... seems like there are always problems with other vendors > and open-source 3d drivers and opengl libs. It's good some people > try these other paths and hopefully they can contribute to improving > support for other hardware, and I'd love for a future with many 3d > graphics choices under linux, all of which are rock solid ... but > until that day arrives, I just stick with nvidia hardware and run > their drivers. > > Curt. ..you _can_ help that development testing X.org's nouveau driver, and tell X.org and your distro what they do wrong. ;o) ..similarly, we radeon ATI card flyers can test also test X.org's radenhd and ATI's own fglrx on our own distros, the easiest way is use a run level for each driver, for Debian using runlevel 2 (and Red Hat derivatives runlevel 5?) as the default one, you could use runlevel 3 for fglrx and runlevel 4 for radeonhd, and you could combine these with a wee boot loader menu trick, so you call them straight from your boot loader, some of these video drivers may behave differently defending on whether they are called by e.g. "init 4", warm booted, cold booted or called by kexec bypassing the bios all together. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
