On 29 May 2011 21:15, Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)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.