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>>> Give this a shot: |
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>>> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" |
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>> No, "nvidia" is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free |
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>> driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I |
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>> have this in my make.conf: |
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>> VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa" |
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> What you say may be true, pretty sure it is, but what he is doing is not |
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> working, hence him coming here for help. Since I have nvidia in mine |
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> and it works fine, thought he may want to try that. What I posted is |
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> not wrong, just another way of doing it. Up to him if he wants to try |
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> it or not. |
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> Also, nv does not work well for me either. It is dreadfully slow and |
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> uses a lot of CPU time. At least that is how it was the last time I |
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> used it. Things change. |
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> Dale |
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Selecting "nvidia" instead of "nv" would hardly make a difference in |
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this specific problem. |
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Also I imagine that the nv driver would be the more likely to work, |
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being free software and maintainable by the Xorg developers. As for |
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being slow, everybody knows it (unfortunately; damned be Nvida*) does |
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not support 3D, so any 3D you use will be in software. But for 2D, it |
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is as fast as the proprietary driver AFAIK. |
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Are you saying that it is slower in 2D than the proprietary driver? |
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*If if were to buy a video card today, it wouldn't be Nvidia. But I |
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don't play 3D games so I won't buy a new card anyway. |
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