When I installed the Nvidia drivers for my Dell Inspiron 8500 the image went from having a 3-4 cm black band on the left and right sides (with the nv driver) to completely filling the screen! I don't play games under Linux (yet) so I can't address any possible fps changes.
Also, a very important point, it was more work reading the instructions than it was to actually install the drivers! It was a snap! LeRoy > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:20:56 -0600 > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:04 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: >> > What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you >> > installed the drivers? >> > >> > Tony. >> >> I don't believe that's the problem. I have a GeF4 and it works >> out of the box with the Xfree86 'nv' driver. No need to install any >> drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the >> proprietary nVidia driver can cause. > <schnip> > >> Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > My box is equipped with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200. With the Xfree86 nv driver > some of the screensavers in Xscreensaver had an fps rate of just 5 to > 10. When I installed Nvidia's driver I saw an increase to about 40 fps. > So maybe the choice of driver isn't the problem in the above-mentioned > case, but the right driver can certainly mean a lot to performance. > > -- > Bj�rn
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