On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:17:34 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 29 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Please pardon my ignorance, but curiosity has gotten the best of me. >> What exactly is the draw that this >> proprietary Nvidia driver has that the open source nv driver does not >> have? I use the nv driver on two of my machines, both of which have >> Nvidia chipsets, and, at least for my purposes, it works just fine. >> What does the proprietary driver give you that the nv driver doesn't? > > the nv driver is SLOW... S L O W.... > when you see the difference between logging in using the nv driver, and > logging in with the nvidia driver, you will ask WHY you waited so long for > the NV driver to load... if you have annvidia card, you really REALLY WANT > the nvidia driver. I'm not happy with what we have to go through to load it, > but I'd rather load it or replace it than use the nv driver. Just my > opinion:)
Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games? I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing. I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement for things like that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
