Re: More Xorg
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Another possibility
>> is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which
>> is newer and *might* support your chipset.
>
> Or the (what's that hissing noise coming from Boston?) nvidia binary
> driver. Lots of people hate it, it's not perfect (but darn it if
> there's not a single non-trivial perfect FLOSS system out there
> either!), and they regularly drop support for older chips, but where
> the rubber hits the road, it works [...] better than the nv driver.
Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's
great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or
the kernel.
> Best of all, when it *does* break, you can always go back to nv
> until it's fixed. Woo hoo! Ain't choice great!
Except in this case, nv doesn't work. He would have to fall back
to VESA, which is not only slower, but does not support his monitor's
full resolution.
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.''`. Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
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