Dear Bruno: Thank you for your immediate response! I am impressed...
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 23:09:31 -0700, > Rob Healey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like to know if it is better to use the supplied video drivers by > fe > > xorg-x11-drv-? or would it be better to use the video driver from NVidia? > > My video card is: > > > > nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1 > > > > Would anyone also be able to tell me if I will be able to gnome-shell/ > gnome > > 3 with this video card as it currently says that I will need 3d > acceleration > > now when I try to go to Desktop Effects if I were to use the NVidia > supplied > > drivers? I do not even know if it would be wise to use the NVidia > drivers > > anyway? > > Try Nouveau first and if that works for you, stick with that. Nouveau > provides > limited 3D support. I think you still need to install > mesa-dri-drivers-experimental to get 3D for Nouveau. > You said to try nouveau first, where would I get the drivers for that? is it the default driver from xorg? If not, where and how would I install and use it? I know that mesa-dri-drivers-experimental is a package that I can download and install from fedora correct? > > If you need more performance or if 3D is buggy for the stuff you want to > do, then try the nVidia drivers using rpmfusion packages. > If I need to go to this route, how would I know which package to install from rpmfusion??? Thank you, Rob G. Healey
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