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The Friday 2007-07-06 at 00:03 +0200, Jan Tiggy wrote:
> Michael Derek Barnett has written:
>
> > 'nv' is the xorg driver. it works, but 3d isn't supported in it. nvidia
> > is the closed source driver from nvidia, which does support 3d.
>
> ok. thx for explaining it to me.
> however i do not understand why would somebody prefer the nv 'crippled'
> driver in favor of the proprietary one? never mind. ain't my beer. maybe
> some kind of religion. who knows.
It is not crippled; it does some things better, but it doesn't do things
that are kept secret by the makers.
For instance, if you need to report a kernel bug and you are using the
proprietary "nvidia" driver, kernel devs will simply refuse to even look at
it.
I use "nvidia" when I need the speed, and "nv" when I need reliability.
> ps: @op, if you wanna use the crippled driver then uninstall the
> proprietary one. the sax2's 'nv' switch responds to the latest nvidia
> driver installed on your system. afaik of course.
No.
I already said that sax2 can be convinced to use the nv driver instead,
without uninstalling anything.
That's not the point.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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