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