Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:17:34 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri January 29 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Please pardon my ignorance, but curiosity has gotten the best of me.
>> What exactly is the draw that this
>> proprietary Nvidia driver has that the open source nv driver does not
>> have? I use the nv driver on two of my machines, both of which have
>> Nvidia chipsets, and, at least for my purposes, it works just fine.
>> What does the proprietary driver give you that the nv driver doesn't?
>
> the nv driver is SLOW... S L O W....
> when you see the difference between logging in using the nv driver, and
> logging in with the nvidia driver, you will ask WHY you waited so long for
> the NV driver to load... if you have annvidia card, you really REALLY WANT
> the nvidia driver. I'm not happy with what we have to go through to load it,
> but I'd rather load it or replace it than use the nv driver. Just my
> opinion:)
Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games?
I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing.
I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire.
Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement
for things like that?
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