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Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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>>>> Give this a shot: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" |
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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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> |
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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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Yes, when I used nv a long time ago, it was very slow and it used a LOT |
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of my CPU time as well. It was like the CPU was doing the work instead |
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of the card. I emerged the nvidia drivers and have stuck with them ever |
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since. |
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Keep in mind I bought my nvidia card several years ago. Back then the |
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ATI support was nasty to say the least. ATI was not a viable option at |
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that time. Nvidia was the king as far as video cards go. That seems to |
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have changed and most likely I will get ATI next time, though I like |
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nvidia but hey . . . .they made their choice and I have to make mine |
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based on theirs. |
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I do agree that nv should work, I guess the old 'your mileage may vary' |
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comes in tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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