> >>>>> "h" == hajhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > h> I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few > h> years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a proprietary > h> driver. > > Well, I've been down this road many times in the past. I've had both > nvidia and ati cards at various times... At least nvidia *offers* a > driver! > > In the end, when I've tried the OSS vs proprietary drivers the > proprietary ones are *always* better when it comes to 3D > acceleration. I've used both, but it's always something like Google > Earth that makes me go switch to NVidia's. > > For Fedora, both the atrms and the livna repositories distributes the > pre-compiled drivers so a yum update should grab them. (Yes, I > realize I'm speaking to a largely Debian crowd). > > The biggest problem with the commercial drivers is that at some point > their installation system drops support for older cards and you have > to make sure you start grabbing the backwards-compatibility snapshot > instead (again, the rpm repositories above distributes compat versions > too).
Thanks all for your comments on the usability of the proprietary drivers. However, that's not really what I was asking. I know that the proprietary drivers work (at least with current kernels); I am specifically interested in alternatives that I may be forced to used in the unfortunate event that NVidia stops supporting the CPU/kernel/OS combination I want to use before I retire the computer. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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