On 06/24/2007 10:36 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to > say: >> I have a nvidia card, and I was wondering if I should be using the >> nv driver or the nvidia driver. I don't do any thing flash, watch >> movies with mplayer and some development work with eclipse and >> firefox. I do use the TV out on one of my machines. > >> Last time I checked the main difference was 3d acceleration, whats >> the main difference now, should I be using nv for what I am doing ? > > I have two machines with Nvidia cards. I've tried the nv driver, and > while it's perfectly adequate for general use, it won't drive the > video resolution above 1024x768 (in my experience), and color depth > is stuck at 16bits.
[...] I'm using the nv driver on a 32 mb RIVA TNT2 graphics card, and it gives me the full 1600 x 1200 the display handles at 24 bits. I did try the Nvidia binary at one point, but Nvidia dropped support for this card. Also, the nv driver has a much smaller memory footprint than the proprietary version, at least when I was using it. Regards, Ralph Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
