Putrycz, Erik wrote:
Quentin Jackson wrote:
May be old news to some, but new news to me :)
For those of you that like to play video on your machine and have
NVIDIA
cards (not legacy ones) the latest Nvidia driver (1.80.06) has
support
for what they're calling VDPAU which is apparently basically a unix implementation of PureVideo which has until now been available on Windows only as I understand it. The end result is much less CPU
usage
while running it with something such as mplayer-vdpau.
Btw, is there any easy way to install the Nvidia drivers for the current factory version? I guess the "official" Nvidia RPMs are coming later?
There is nothing easier to install nVidia drivers for ANY version of openSUSE than doing following: * make sure that you have 'kernel-source', 'make', and 'gcc' installed; * download the nVidia driver from nVidia site [http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html]; * CTRL-ALT-F3 and login as root; * then "cd /usr/src/linux" and then "make cloneconfig"; * init 3 and login as root (again); * cd to the directory into which you downloaded the new nVidia driver; * "nvidia-installer --uninstall" to get rid of the present driver (if there is one - still do this even if you do or don't know if one is installed [some will tell you to use "rmmod nvidia" but this doesn't always work]); * "sh NVIDIA<tab> [to get the full name of the latest driver] --- <RETURN>; * respond to the prompts which come up, and after SAX2 has altered your xorg.conf file.... * type "init 5" and login normally into your system. Piece of cake. Ciao. -- Understanding only begins with the act of perception. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org