On 7/5/05, Scott Jan <jscott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:38 +0200, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > Scott Jan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Has anyone using fedora core 4 installed the nvidia driver? > > > > > > Jan > > > Didn't have to fiddle with any udev things to get device nodes, either, > > it Just Worked. Nice. > > My computer seems to be in an idle state at boot time for about 30 > seconds. I can't see that this new driver has improved things. I don't think that's related to the nvidia driver -- at least I haven't seen any boot slowdown since installing it. As to what improvement there is with the nvidia driver, well, in my case it's basically mandatory if I want to use my dualhead motherboard in dualhead mode -- the nv driver doesn't support that, so it's not usable for me. > Is there anything that I still have to do, e.g. putting selinux = 0 ? SELinux shouldn't affect the nvidia driver, but I don't run selinux on my desktop, so I can't say for certain. Essentially, if the nv driver works for you and you have no compelling reason to use the nvidia driver as I do, I wouldn't bother with it. The nvidia driver is only helpful if you want 3D performance or dualhead performance from a dualhead-capable card. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
