Livna nVidia problems...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/23/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> Grr, sods!  Some might think that not an issue, since you don't change
> >> graphic cards that much, usually.  But you may if you test people's
> >> machines.  And the same issue bites you if you try to go back to the
> >> open source nv driver to get around something you can't get to work with
> >> the nvidia driver (I experienced that, myself).
>
> Lonni J Friedman:
> > nvidia-installer --uninstall
> > puts everything back where it was prior to installing the nvidia
> > driver.  This is documented.
>
> We *should* be able to just configure X with the driver to use at that
> time, we should't have to uninstall something to use a different driver.

You aren't objecting to having to install something to use a different driver.

> And what happens to someone with two graphics cards that they want to
> use simultaneously?

I don't understand the question.  There's nothing stopping anyone from
doing that, however you'd still need to have the nvidia driver
installed if you wanted accelerated support.