-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 23/05/2009 09:55, Frank Cox a écrit : > On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:36:56 +0200 > François Patte wrote: > > >> 1- My lab in my university has contracts with companies and I have to >> choose in a panel of offers. For computers, it is Dell and Dell's offer >> is with nvidia graphic. What can I do? > > Are you a student, a research assistant, a scientist, or a professor? Your > approach and your "power" may differ depending on your position in the pecking > order at your university, but basically you can make the case that proprietary > software is making your job more difficult than it needs to be. My power is not so big facing a big research institution like CNRS in France. So.... > For example, > if you use a supported Intel video chipset (and ATI, now) there is no need to > do anything at all when you install Fedora or Centos on a computer. The video > just works right off the bat, and there are no "outside" drivers to worry about > at all. There's also less to deal with when upgrading a kernel after the initial > installation is long over and done with. This, I don't understand: I installed nvidia akmod from rpm-fussion-non-free and there absolutely no problem of the like: nvidia module is automatically compiled if the kernel updated. >> 3- Many times we have to deal with hardwares using proprietary drivers, >> nvidia is among them. > > But there are excellent alternatives to Nvidia that provide even better and > more painless support! Why ride the second-class bus? I don't know what is second "class bus" (in fact, I know: my wages are not so high!) but I have some Dell computer with an ATI card and the only difference is that the driver is installed from the first install (and not after update and config of rpm-fusion repos) but running glxgears gives 2900FPS for ATI, 500FPS for nvidia with the nv driver and 15000FPS for nvidia with nvidia driver. Moreover, I need various config for multiscreen display (clone, xinerama...) and the nvidia doc is easy and clear enough for me to be used to get what I want. I write "by hand" the needed xorg.conf, graphic tools are not able to write exactly what I want (or I don't know how to use them!) - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoYFdQACgkQdE6C2dhV2JWacQCcDuX79oEihlBQ9jaejCv5dH8s Z9oAn0Bw0PQBaSu1LG9mLVDidaDMIzov =ZCMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
