On Monday 04 June 2007 10:39, hajhouse wrote: > I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few > years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a proprietary > driver. Now I am faced with a problem: basically the only > high-performance video available on laptops is NVIDIA. I know about the > proprietary binary-only drivers that will provide full 3d acceleration. > I don't play games but I do use 3d data visualization (not realtime). > What I would like to know is: if for whatever reason NVIDIA stop > supporting the Linux drivers, will I be SOL and stuck with an > unaccelerated card? Or is there a viable Free alternative that will > provide at least some acceleration? (There is this: > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ --- anyone tried it?) What about > emulating the GPU in software (assuming a fast dual-core CPU)?
Hi Henry, I have been using the proprietary drivers for the last 3 yrs now on debian/unstable - and it seems to work ok. Just beware that updating some packages will break the drivers - resulting in a simple recompile with module-assistant. cheers, -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
