Hi, > I would like to ask any NVidia Fedora users do you use open source or > proprietary NVidia drivers? > I personally use the open source "nouveau" driver on my computers running Nvidia cards. > Why do you use driver that you use? Have you tried the other one? What > are the benefits and disadvantages to both of them? > I have used both over time. Main differences will probably depend on your hardware and the usage you want to do of your computer. There are two caes : if nouveau won't work on your system at all, you're stuck with vesa or the proprietary driver. If it works with your card, you can use it knowing that : * you can't do any serious 3D (yet). The experimental dri libs *could* make you use compositing with nouveau, although it's potentially highly unstable and not recommended at the time. * so far video acceleration works on all my nvidia cards on files I tried. I don't know if everything is fully supported but I've got a low cpu system that can play h264 videos just fine with nouveau. * 2D rendering is fine. I never had any trouble on this matter, on old and new nvidia cards. Only trouble I had with nouveau so far is that the "Ion" chipsets previously were not supported. I had to fall back to the proprietary driver instead for some time. On the other hand, there are a few drawbacks in having the nvidia proprietary driver : * first of all, this might or might not be a problem for you, but this is a binary blob. It will sometimes be out of sync with either X or the kernel, although I've not seen that often (as opposed to other binary drivers such as poulsbo) * the nvidia-config scripts will modify your xorg.conf file. You could be fine with this or not ; I personally like having no xorg.conf at all anymore and having some subsections in xorg.conf.d/ > If you use proprietary drivers how do you install them? Which package > or packages need to be installed? Which repository has best > proprietary NVidia drivers? I used RPMfusion and nvidia-akmod. I think there were some kmod-nvidia packages for precompiled binaries (which I don't use since I tend to recompile my kernel)
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