15 Jan
2006
15 Jan
'06
9:33 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 16:34 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:26 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
No need to apologize. I certainly favor your view on this. I just
wish there were some way to get a really good, accelerated, open 3D
driver for some video card.
--
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html
"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and
this we should do freely and generously."
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744
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 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:
>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?
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.