I mistakenly thought that the nVidia proprietary drivers would offer better
performance in 2D and video (VDPAU), and prevent the random hangs that one
user had been experiencing (the nouveau driver is marked as experimental in
Ubuntu 10.04). I've found that as fat clients these aren't quite as
"snappy" as I'd like them to be. However, when running them as thin clients
they are much faster, windows draw more quickly. Video performance is less,
but it's a compromise. The nouveau open source drivers appear to work fine,
and it turns out that this one user is the only one having the hanging
problem.
While the Atom is a nice power saver and space saver, even the 2-core
2-thread version I have performs no better than a 5 year old Pentium D
system in practice, and those are found for around $30 and are 64-bit.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 10:00 PM, Jay Goldberg wrote:
> > There's got to be a better way to boot a mix of NVidia clients and
> > regular clients without maintaining 2 separate chroots
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon>, right? It's a
> > shame because these little ION2 PCs are slick, and cheap, but it's
> > obvious that NVidia was not counting on users booting different hardware
> > all of the time.
>
> Don't want to rain on your parade, but my experience with nVidia
> proprietary drivers is that they are a nightmare even on a standard fat
> desktop. I would count on nVidia screwing things up, which means you
> are probably stuck with two chroots.
>
> Is there something you need to have out of the nVidia drivers (ex:
> openGL, VDPAU etc.)? If not it is a lot easier to just run the open
> source driver.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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