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Hi andrea, |
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on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:53:53AM +0100, you wrote: |
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> > I've had big stability problems as well |
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> > with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock |
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> > solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I |
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> > don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more |
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> Well, I don't use any login manager, so when I close my X session I'd |
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> like to be back in a working console. |
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Do you actually do work there that you can't do while X is running? |
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Because ye olde VGA should work in any case and it's good enough for |
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entering "startx" or watching the machine resume from disk ;) |
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> I'm guessing if there is alternative driver that gives Nvidia 3D accel, |
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> (like for ATI I can use radeon instead of fglrx). |
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> I don't care too much about performance (no desktop 3D effects or |
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> composite are needed) and I'm not a game player. BTW I'd like to have |
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> applications requiring 3D (such as googleearth) just working. |
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AFAIK the open source "nv" driver has only 2D accel, and I haven't been |
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able to get GLX working with it. I guess it's possible using MESA's |
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software rendering somehow but as the latest nvidia driver works fine |
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for me I haven't investigated any further there. |
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cheers, |
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Matthias |
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