on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Ed Cogburn (ecogburn@xtn.net) wrote: > Bedford, Donald T. wrote: > > >When I upgraded/build a new kernel, I had a problem w/ the nvidia driver > >and > >ended up changing back to 'Driver "nv"' (see step 6). Not optimal but > >it works... > > > > That's not really a solution, because all you're doing is returning to > the old, limited nvidia hardware driver, "nv", that comes with X11. The > driver from NVIDIA is more optimized for the hardware than "nv" is. > However, if you're not interested in 3D type apps like Quake, and you're > only interested in a 2D desktop then you probably don't "need" the > NVIDIA driver, and could get by with "nv". I suppose the NVIDIA driver > has better optimizations for 2D acceleration too, but it probably isn't > a big enough difference to matter that much. If you want 3D > acceleration though, and OpenGL support, you really have to use NVIDIA's > driver, not "nv". Agreed, in spades. However, I have noticed a substantial speedup, especially when dealing with things like solid window dragging, with the "nvidia" driver versus the "nv" one. For the benefit of previous posters who recommended a tarball installation of NVIDIA's driver there are debian packages, in woody, for the NVIDIA drivers - they're in the contrib/x11 section. Installation is straightforward: 1. apt-get the relevant packages (nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src) 2. build custom kernel package with make-kpkg and --added_modules 3. install it 4. build and install the nvidia-glx package (dpkg-buildpackage) 5. Change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 6. Play Quake III as reward for all your hard work. 7. Make a mental note to rebuild the nvidia kernel module if you change kernels. I am aware that this sequence of events may be somewhat suboptimal (step 6 excepted) - at the time I was new to Debian and basically made it up as I went along. As the process as described Worked For Me I never really pursued doing it The Right Way, which I'm fairly sure this is not. If I had the knowhow I would write a script to do all this for you. Perhaps I should obtain that knowhow and do it... Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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