On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 09:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008, dexter wrote: > >On Fri March 7 2008 12:36:04 Chris G wrote: > >> I run fedora 8 and have a "XFX GeForce 7300GS, 256Mb DDR-2 display > >> card". > >> > >> Will using the nvidia proprietary X driver be noticeably faster than > >> the 'standard' nv driver? I don't play any games on my computer but I > >> do some graphical stuff, my main uses are:- > >> > >> Web browsing using firefox > >> Lots of command line terminal windows > >> digikam photo album > >> VMWare running Windows XP as a guest system > >> > >> I think the most likely area to be affected by better graphics drivers > >> is the VMWare (Workstation 6.0.2 if that's relevant). Can anyone tell > >> me if I'll gain anything by moving to the nvidia drivers? > >> > >> > >> Chris Green > > > >The open drivers are an obfuscated POS. > >ALL nVidia folks go here www.opentheblob.com and sign-up > > > >...dex > > I did, but do you, in your wildest dreams, think that 8 thousand signatures on > an electronic petition they will never read are going to move the corporate > honcho's to please us? If we are the squeaky wheel, they will just put out > more mousetraps cuz that is about the size of our squeak in comparison to > their total sales. Alone, nope. But combine a vocal community that signs electronic petitions that may/may not be read with AMD/ATI releasing the complete (?) specs and having solid 3D capable OSS drivers - and suddenly opentheblob's request doesn't look so unreasonable. On a side note, for those of you who don't really understand why an open driver is required (Especially given nVidia's excellent binary driver) - two sentences: A. Users of Xen (Linux/OpenSolaris), FreeBSD (x86_64), NetBSD/OpenBSD (*) and PowerPC (Under Linux and *BSD) are limited to the nv driver. B. The binary driver can be used as long as nVidia is willing to continue supporting/developing it. If nVidia kills this life-line, nVidia users will be more-or-less forced to continue using F8/2.6.23 until their nVidia graphics card dies. (The first minor kernel/X.org change will kill the driver - and there's nothing you, or the community can do about it) - Gilboa
