Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[Adalberto Castelo <castelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 January 2005 13:00, joe wrote:
> Not bad, but it is a few steps that some people would rather not have to
> deal with, so suse does provide the easy default install method, where
> you just click on the "install nvidia drivers" checkbox in yast, and
> don't worry about the details. On new installations, I simply check that
> box and voila, I have accelerated 3D. However, the driver does tend to

Indeed, most of the time that will do, and it usually works very well. The 
problem is, as you mentioned, with stale drivers. For instance, the SuSE 
script fetches 6111 drivers, the most recent being 6629. There's a 
significant difference in performance from one to the other (e.g., about 30% 
better performance in doom3 with 6629, at least in amd64 platforms).

On the other hand, you have to be prepared to deal with more things manually, 
for instance, the 6629 version of the drivers needs at least one patch to 
work properly (see patch in thread: 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40126&page=1&pp=15). As 
usual, a trade off between convenience, stability and raw performance...

But such is life, Grasshopper :)

Cheers

> get stale, as it remains at a static version, and in some cases the
> acceleration stops happening. In this case, or if you just want the
> latest and greatest drivers, it's good to know the drill.
>
> Joe