-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-07-06 at 00:03 +0200, Jan Tiggy wrote:
Michael Derek Barnett has written:
'nv' is the xorg driver. it works, but 3d isn't supported in it. nvidia is the closed source driver from nvidia, which does support 3d.
ok. thx for explaining it to me. however i do not understand why would somebody prefer the nv 'crippled' driver in favor of the proprietary one? never mind. ain't my beer. maybe some kind of religion. who knows.
It is not crippled; it does some things better, but it doesn't do things that are kept secret by the makers. For instance, if you need to report a kernel bug and you are using the proprietary "nvidia" driver, kernel devs will simply refuse to even look at it. I use "nvidia" when I need the speed, and "nv" when I need reliability.
ps: @op, if you wanna use the crippled driver then uninstall the proprietary one. the sax2's 'nv' switch responds to the latest nvidia driver installed on your system. afaik of course.
No. I already said that sax2 can be convinced to use the nv driver instead, without uninstalling anything. That's not the point. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGjYj2tTMYHG2NR9URAsZvAJ9Mppku8y/lTrbVpQ08gahjgKY1LwCfe5KD kskBOowYmugnD5MycE4Z6jU= =nBud -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org