Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:40:50 +0100 | Subject | Re: 2.5 XFree and nvidia geforce. | From | Ducrot Bruno <> |
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:55:54PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:16:15 +0200, Bongani Hlope said: > > > If you don't inteand to run 3d applications, then you don't need the > > nvidia drivers (both for 2.4 and 2.5), but if you want 3d acceleration, > > the you best bet is 2.4 + nvidia > > For reasons I don't claim to understand, the nvidia drivers have much > better 2D acceleration as well. And with the patches from www.minion.de > they work acceptably under 2.5.64, modulo a few issues: > > At least on my Dell laptop (GeForce 440 2Go), the 'GLX' extension will wedge up > the X server (ctl-alt-del still reboots, so the kernel is still there). > > Restarting the X server hangs the machine sometimes. > > I'm going to take a shot at debugging those two issues now that my office is > remodelled and I have a fighting chance of hooking something to the serial > port for debugging. ;) >
One of the main issue for me (I don't want flame please) is that it kill acpi and/or apm. Since it's more important for for me to get suspension working, I can not use any drivers provided by nVidia unless of course they implement necessary support.
BTW, XFree4.3.0 is out, and your GeForce is supported.
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