On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > > I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the > box using the OpenSource driver. I have a 5000 series card in it. The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration. What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU. > > I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am > not sure where these come from yet. Video resolution and mouse features > changed. FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic' nvidia.com close source driver. > > FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has. Heck, I > know Windows people that tell me the same thing. > nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles around ATI's. No question about it. Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working, 3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau project will cover that) - Gilboa
