15 Jan
2006
15 Jan
'06
5:34 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:26 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:18 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
Yeah sorry I did not want to restart that flame war, I was just trying
to illustrate a point...
Lee
Lee Revell wrote:
We've been through this before. If all you have to worry about is
mpeg2 playback you should be able to get by with the nv driver. I have
extreme 3D requirements (not games) and there is not a comparable driver
of any type for any other card.
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:47 -0800, Brad Fuller
wrote:
I care about getting the job done well, first of all. I sure would like
it to be FOSS, though!
On my systems, the nvidia driver seems to work better for mpeg2 than nv.
That's why I'm using it. But, it too has problems on some older nvidia
chipsets. On 11:48 AM Jan Depner wrote:
> I find it amusing that so many people who won't use MP3 due to its
> > "encumbrance" will happily run the proprietary Nvidia driver...
>
>
Is there an alternative to the Nvidia driver? If so, I sure would like
to know what it is!
Yes, the open source "nv" driver. Does not support hardware accelerated
3D, but then again we care more about free software than being able to
use every bell and whistle, right?