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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:29:54
Message-Id: 7573e9640606271319l1f1a47a9w6803bb016588ea3c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-( by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Nv has been ok. W/ dual opterons, even though not especially fast
3 > ones, these graphics intensive tasks have been performing well.
4 > Googleearth hasn't been working, either because of this issue, or
5 > amd64 incompatibility: it works well even with a really slow card on
6 > an x86 box.
7
8 Googleearth will be very slow without opengl acceleration, so you
9 probably want to stick with the nvidia driver.
10
11 You should verify that DRI is being activated with glxinfo (should
12 see: "direct rendering: Yes". Also make sure that "eselect opengl
13 list" shows nvidia as the selected implementation.
14
15 -Richard
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