On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > > Isn't the nv driver the generic driver that comes with xorg? > > Yes. > > > I use the > > drivers from Nvidia. You have to stop X and run their file from the > command > > line. But once it's installed it's great. I know it's not open sourced > but > > their linux drivers rule. and i believe the driver for it is actually > > nvidia. > > The proprietary nvidia drivers provide accelerated 3d support (OpenGL) > as well as TV out support not available in the open source driver. > Otherwise there is no appreciable difference. > > I do not recommend using the nvidia installer. It is much better to use > one of the available packages suitable for your system. The nvidia > installer does some nasty file overwrites that make recovering from an > installation almost impossible without package management. > > Packages for Fedora are available from either atrpms.net, freshrpms.net > or rpm.livna.org. I prefer the atrpms repository. For Ubuntu, you need > to enable the restricted drivers. > > > IIRC nv is the generic driver and doesn't do alot. Like if you > > want XV to work you need the nvidia drivers, nv doesn't work. > > Not true. The open source nv driver supports the Xv extension quite well. > Maybe they fixed that. Alls I know that when i first was building MythTV boxes that you needed the proprietary drivers from nvidia for exceleration to work, even on a regular monitor. By exceleration i mean Xv. And nv has all the resolutions nvidia has? I mean i admit it's been awhile since i've played around with just nv and not the proprietary drivers, but everything always seemed to look better (just the desktop even) with the nvidia driver. And depends what nvidia card you have whether you can use the repositories or not. I had the 8600 when it first came out on Ubuntu system, and you couldn't use the Ubunutu restricted, plus the Ubuntu restricted had some issues with certain things that i can not recall off the top of my head. I used the nvidia driver from their website until I found Envy. > > Gus > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
