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The only reason I really use nvidia-drivers is because of VDPAU. Otherwise |
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I can't watch HD videos on my media center. VDPAU works great, and I hope |
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nouveau supports it or something equivalent eventually. Mythtv probably |
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uses it, though that's just a guess. |
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Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 |
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On Apr 11, 2012 5:17 PM, <ny6p01@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> > Just being curious: |
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> > I use my main workstation primarily for work. |
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> > |
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> > Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only |
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> > think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. |
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> > |
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> > I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of the |
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> nvidia-drivers-package. |
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> > What are your recommendations? |
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> > Thanks, Stefan |
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> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update |
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> the |
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> kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. |
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> But |
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> I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau |
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> works well enough for me. |
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> Terry |
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