On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 06:38 -0700, Michael Peters wrote: > 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. > are you certain nothing else changed? I have been using the nvidia driver since RH7 and have never heard of anything like that. > 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. > I have not had much luck with the onboard intel cards, but I also have never tried tweaking anything.
