3D Support for NVIDIA

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Dec 17 19:22:29 UTC 2007


> Regarding the use of nVidia from livna, my limited experience (about a
> year) has been that they are good at providing both the kernel and the
> xorg modules and extensions.  On my system I have
>
> kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-100.14.19-3.lvn7.x86_64
>
> The former has a Build Date of 6th December 2007, the latter 12th
> October, so it seems livna keep up well.  You mention legacy hardware.
> My hardware is not too "legacy" so that may be what the difference is.
> Or it may be that I don't do any 3D work, which may tickle the
> problems you had.
>
> Anyway, apologies if I have misunderstood your reasons for not using a
> pre-compiled rpm.  For me they "just work".

Part of it is "force of habit".  I have been compiling the drivers like
that for so long, for me it "just works".  (But then again, I have also
modified xorg.conf configs by hand as well, back when you had to.)




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