Hi andrea, on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:53:53AM +0100, you wrote: > > 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.
Do you actually do work there that you can't do while X is running?
Because ye olde VGA should work in any case and it's good enough for
entering "startx" or watching the machine resume from disk ;)
> 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.
AFAIK the open source "nv" driver has only 2D accel, and I haven't been
able to get GLX working with it. I guess it's possible using MESA's
software rendering somehow but as the latest nvidia driver works fine
for me I haven't investigated any further there.
cheers,
Matthias
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