On gio, 2008-03-13 at 21:38 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: > As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but > NVidia's suck a little less. > I've had big stability problems as well > with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock > solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I > don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more
Well, I don't use any login manager, so when I close my X session I'd like to be back in a working console. This behavior also gives me problems in the hibernate/resume process, because I cannot see what's really happening during that time. > ---the console > runs in regular 1980s VGA 80x25 text mode which is fine for the boot > process, after that I use gnome-terminal in fullscreen mode which looks > just like a framebuffer console but with full unicode support and > everything. I'm guessing if there is alternative driver that gives Nvidia 3D accel, (like for ATI I can use radeon instead of fglrx). I don't care too much about performance (no desktop 3D effects or composite are needed) and I'm not a game player. BTW I'd like to have applications requiring 3D (such as googleearth) just working.
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