On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:35, Aaron Walker wrote: > I just bought a new video card for my 2nd machine (my windows gaming > box), and so I thought I would replace the ATI Rage128 I have in this > box (Gentoo 1.4) with the GF4 Ti4200 that I am taking out of the windows > box. > > I was just wondering which installation method would be better, or if it > even matters: > > a) download and install the driver from Nvidia's site > b) follow the directions of the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide > (which is basically just emerge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel, then edit > config files, and load nvidia module) > > I would prefer option A, but I just wanted to run it by the list first > before I do it.. I finally have this gentoo box running *perfectly* > (just installed it last week.. couldn't be more pleased), and I don't > want to mess anything up ;)
Option B, for a few reasons. 1) Nvidia's GL libs don't overwrite xfree's because portage handles it using opengl-update, so it's easy to switch back and forth to diagnose problems etc. 2) Automatic setup of everything that needs setting up 3) Automatic notification of new driver releases
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