James,
NV is an open source driver supporting all NVidia cards, but does not support hardware acceleration. There are numerous and very annoying bugs reported with this driver. NVIDIA is a proprietary driver which supports 2D and 3D hardware acceleration through the GF2 series of cards. This is your best option. NVIDIA-LEGACY is a driver I was not even aware of, but I'm guessing this would support GF1, 256, and TNT cards that have been bumped out of the main driver for space. Both of your cards should use the NVIDIA driver. You can use this flag in your
make.conf settings for xorg 7, however it will really not have much affect. You'll need to emerge these seperately as far as I know.
# emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel
then go on and emerge your xorg 7. Be sure to read about driver compatibility problems with XOrg
7.1 and up on the gentoo-wiki site if you plan to use that version of xorg.
JBDubbs
On 7/10/06, James <
wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
Sorry for revisiting a confusing subject, but after ready many of the recent
postings on nvidia and xorg-7* I have a few questions.
Yes I have read:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
and it looks fine and reasonable, in fact the I'm at the revdep-rebuild
on my first of 7 convertions to modular X.(7.*).
My first card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
(rev b2)
Legacy or current? It's not clear to me which category this or any other
nvidia cards fall into. Is there a table I can look up to see which
nvidia cards belong to which driver.
In xorg.conf
do I use do 'nv' or 'nvidia' or 'nvidia-legacy'
Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia-legacy"
With my hardware, which current nvidia driver (legacy) would I emerge
to match my card?
On another gentoo workstation It has this card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev a1)
Which Driver would I choose for this nvidia card?
James
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