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Re: nv vs. nvidia



At Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:37:32 -0500,
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> 
> Hi Debian!
> 
> Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver 
> (Sarge version)  and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
> 
> I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former 
> I cannot get glx to work.
> 

The closed source driver has glx support, the regular X driver doesn't, but
there is dri support for it. Not sure if there is a current debian package
though (don't think so) so you will probably have to compile it yourself. I
don't know the performance comparison though.

> Thanks.
> 
> Hugo
> 
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