C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote: [snip]
Bottom line is the nvidia driver contains the closed-source optimizations, gpu downclocking, and performance benefits that the nv driver is working to achieve. The nv driver is good, but it doesn't have the benefit of the chipset level optimizations that the nvidia driver has. I have used the nvidia driver on everything from opensuse (I think 9.0 with my old MX440) to 11.2 and my 8800GT and I always get better performance/stability out of the nvidia driver. If the nvidia driver gets broken by an update, then I'll drop back to the nv driver until the nvidia driver gets fixed.
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and.. yes you can edit the xorg.conf file by hand despite all the nonsense at the top of the file. It is just a standard text config file. As a matter of fact, if you want to optimize your graphics performance, you can add/remove/change options for your card and setup that can really help your graphics system perform. You can google something like 'xorg.conf tweaks nvidia' and probably find a wealth of info that will help.
Enjoy! (and always backup your original xorg.conf before you start hacking :)
Thanks David. That was the last and important info I was hoping for as to why hunt the nvidia driver. Due to the inability to automatically to recognize my monitor setting since the dead of sax2 I have to use a "xorg.conf". Did not find another way to save my monitor refresh rate. And now I am up to change back to nvidia.
I currently run a dual monitor setup with an ATI IGP. The initial problem I had was my 'main' monitor is a 1680x1050 LCD and the second one a 17" CRT. Trying to run them with different vertical refresh frequencies was trouble, and the KDE kicker, menu, and my desktop icons all wanted to be on the CRT instead of the LCD. Which is not what I wanted. Once I hacked together a hand coded xorg.conf from many examples gleaned from the net I eventually got what I wanted, with one exception. ATI relies on Xinerama, which is slow and outdated, for dual monitor support. Unfortunately, using this disables 3D acceleration. You can have one, or the other, but not both. I submitted this to ATI/AMD as a feature request. My previous old box had an AGP based 6600GT card. The Nvidia drivers provide a Xinerama compatible replacement they call "TwinView". It allows for dual monitor setups and 3D acceleration. Again, this entailed a hand coded xorg.conf to get it exactly like I wanted, but being able to have 3D acceleration and dual monitors together is a plus for Nvidia that ATI cannot yet match. I gave ATI a try, but my next card purchase will be an Nvidia so I can get back to the advantages of having TwinView and not having 3D acceleration disabled with a dual monitor configuration. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org