[LAU] Switching the distro

[Arve Barsnes]

On 29 May 2011 21:15, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I understand but personally I wouldn't worry about it. There is
> great support at NVidia for Linux and they're not going to drop that
> just because a new version of X came out. NVidia CUDA is huge in
> finance, 3D design, medical, etc., and a lot/most of that is Linux. If
> the newest versions of X are having trouble then that will get worked
> out quickly. On Gentoo I'm using xorg-server-1.9.5 with no problems
> using 270.41.19. I see xorg-server-1.10.5 in portage but it's still
> marked as testing so I haven't bothered with it.
>
> Being that there are no recent real-time kernels I think the use of
> NVidia isn't as much of a problem as it used to be years ago.
> Personally I don't need the real-time kernel anymore. The standard
> kernel is fast enough for my needs. (Sub-5mS) Being that NVidia works
> well with the standard kernel I'm pretty happy here. I suspect that
> properly setup your 7200GT will work fine. (I.e. - do whatever it was
> designed to do.)
>
Just for reference, I use the same version of the nvidia-drivers on
xorg-server 1.10.2 without any problems. Had to patch the
nvidia-drivers to work with the realtime kernel (because of some
syntax changes), but once the next realtime kernel version is out, it
should be back to normal.