Collins wrote:
Just idle curiosity. I have a Geforce2 64Meg card, and I'm using the standard xfree driver for desktop work without any problems. I don't do games.In a nutshell: no.
Is there any benefit from screwing around with the kernel and various Nvidia drivers for desktop users?
The "official" drivers are slightly faster at most 2D stuff (qualitatively, I haven't personally benchmarked it). And they are the only way to get GL acceleration on nVidia cards (which is of little use unless you are doing games).
I think that the official drivers also handle monitor timings a little more gracefully. For example: on my LCD - I was able to use the default timings for VESAfb and nVidia's driver to drive my screen at 1024x768x60 without any pixel skew or alignment issues.
On the other hand, with the XFree driver, you can still use the nVidia fbdev driver, so you can have a fast framebuffer console. However, as I alluded to earlier, I had to tweak the line timings for fbdev in order to get it to sync up with XFree.
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