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On 6/28/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in |
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> /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver, you want |
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> "VIDEO_CARDS=nv" instead. |
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Ok, I'll try this. What's IUSE="video_cards_nvidia ... etc " all |
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about in the xine-lib ebuild? |
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> > 2. Is it even possible to run nvidia-kernel? Is the "nv" driver |
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> > all that bad, or is it possible to get it to work decently with |
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> > opengl? Is it possible to work with new nv drivers? |
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> The nv driver does not support DRI (eg, no 3D hardware acceleration), |
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> so opengl applications are going to run in software emulation mode, |
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> and probably be very slow. |
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> What is it that you are trying to do? |
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Watch and edit videos, for one thing. Googleearth. Grass gis maybe. |
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Nv has been ok. W/ dual opterons, even though not especially fast |
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ones, these graphics intensive tasks have been performing well. |
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Googleearth hasn't been working, either because of this issue, or |
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amd64 incompatibility: it works well even with a really slow card on |
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an x86 box. |
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Thanks for the pointers. |
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Alan |
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> -Richard |
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