On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Mauriat Miranda <mli...@mjmwired.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I just plugged an NVidia GT520 into my Fedora 17 machine and I have two >> > monitors working with the nouveau driver with zero effort on my part. >> Yay. >> > But videos are jumpy so I want to try the proprietary driver. >> > >> > I went to the How-to that's been recommended on this list, at >> > >> > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia >> > >> > Where the first task is to figure out which driver to install. The >> options >> > are "GeForce 6 and Newer," "GeForce 5 (FX Series)," and "GeForce 2 >> through >> > GeForce 4." >> > >> > You're supposed to see what lspci says to figure out which you have, >> but my >> > lspci output is a little obtuse: >> > >> > [matt@matt ~]$ lspci | grep VGA >> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1040 (rev >> a1) >> > >> > Which one do I have? >> >> Most likely this is a relatively new piece of hardware, so you would >> select the "and Newer" category. > > > You were correct. I didn't realize how old the 6 series was. > > Ironically, with the proprietary driver Fedora doesn't see my second > monitor, and while videos play beautifully smoothly, people in them all > look very blue! Only in videos ... I don't see any other color issues. > Anyway, consider this one solved. > Here's more info on the blue people in videos issue. It is a flash problem. Someone at nvidia wrote a patch. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137877&p=1 http://plagman.net/stuff/0001-vdpau_trace-WAR-Flash-quirks.patch Or changing flash's settings to disable hardware acceleration can work, too. I get nice 1080p playback without it, so I skipped the patch.
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