On Tuesday, October 25, 2005, at 06:29AM, Rudolf Kastl <che666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >yeah it works but the performance is below acceptable for me, even >with a rather fast cpu ;). > >2005/10/25, tlc <tlc@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:14 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote: >> > nvidia "nv" driver doesnt provide any hw acceleration at all... go >> > ahead and try tux racer with software rendering ;) its fun to watch. >> > sure if you dont intend to run anything 3d it doesent matter... >> > >> > regards, >> > Rudolf Kastl >> It works fine for me even with the nv driver. And the nvidia driver is a >> very easy to install. I have to recommend against using the nvidia binary driver. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it ain't so good. For example - I was experiencing a crash (segfault) in grep and slowness in balsa. When using nv.ko (the open source driver) - grep did not segfault and balsa was fine. Your experiences may differ - but I finally said enough is enough and I no longer will use binary only video drivers. With Open Source video drivers, sometimes there are problems too - but at least the source to the driver is available for people to look at and determine how to proceed with a solution. I do wish we had a modern video card with good 3D acceleration and an open source driver - I don't know of one, maybe one exists - fortunately for me, 3D hardware acceleration isn't something I need. I think some of the onboard Intel cards have good open source 3D acceleration. Probably not as good as NVidia is capable of, but better than nothing.
