From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:53:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206453190.28523.5.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803251518.30543.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between
> > nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later.
>
> I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to
> head
> comparisons on nvidia for ages. Last I heard, nv was still way behind
> in terms of features supported, but that can change quite quickly.
>
> Anyone else got current info on this? It's a question I'm sure many
> folk
> would like an answer on
The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due
to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS
driver.
You can try the nouveau* drivers but they're still experimental.
* http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
-a
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 22:43 [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard Nicola Degl'Innocenti
2008-03-24 22:59 ` Galevsky
2008-03-24 23:00 ` Neil Walker
2008-03-25 9:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 9:31 ` Galevsky
2008-03-25 13:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 13:53 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2008-03-25 14:51 ` Galevsky
2008-03-25 16:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-25 16:48 ` darren kirby
2008-03-25 17:02 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-03-25 16:56 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-03-25 9:50 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-25 23:43 ` ionut cucu
2008-03-26 0:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-26 0:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-26 7:16 ` ionut cucu
2008-03-25 17:45 ` Joseph
2008-03-25 19:18 ` Nicola Degl'Innocenti
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