On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> >> For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: >> >> 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) > > Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago...
... only for "newer" (fermi) cards ;-) >> 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources 3/ >> "nvidia" driver from nvidia website 4/ VESA driver (not recommended) > > ... and recommended people use the vesa driver. Yes, how bad :-( > nv obviously won't immediately stop working, but as x.org releases new > versions of the client and server, bit-rot will inevitably set in. I agree. I guess from now on nvidia will be pushing their own proprietary drivers. >> I am currently using option #2 for my GeForce 7600GS in Debian lenny >> and works pretty well. >> >> > I use #3 with a 7300GS in a mixed 32/64-bit environment (totally > unsupported by Nvidia, but works like a charm). I find it a bit more difficult to manage (if you change the kernel, you need to recompile the driver again). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.21.18.04...@gmail.com
