On Sunday 31 January 2010 14:25:39 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > In my case, none of the above... > > Oh, come on! > I'm using the same binary driver as you are. > And yes, nVidia binary driver, while -far- better than ATI's driver, Lesser of two evils, right? ;-) > has > had it's share of issues. > E.g. > - Initial F12 xorg + nVidia driver combo resulted in unbelievably slow > performance under KDE. But this is worked around by now. Unbelievable, given the fact that those are actually closed source drivers, yes? :-) > - Legacy driver releases tend to lag the "current" driver badly. In a > desktop, you could always switch to the latest version, but you laptop > still carries a GF5600M, you're more or less screwed. Umm, my initial comment that spawned this part of the thread was about advice on buying *new* cards, not buying *old* cards. If you want to buy an old card, feel free to buy a new Intel card instead, you'll get the same level of performance. > - Xen kernel were never supported by nVidia. You want 3D graphics in a virtual environment? To what purpose? Playing quake3 on a mail/web/file-server under a virtual machine? > - Having to compile a kernel without 4K stacks for months, until nVidia > added support for it. As compared to ATI not providing support for current version of X for the same number of months and still counting? Tricky question: what is easier --- recompiling a kernel, or downgrading X? :-) > .... Again, nVidia is doing an admirable job at keeping their drivers > stable and current (compared to say, ATI or Intel Poulsbo), but claiming > the using them do not come at a price, is ridicules, at best. Fair enough. But this price is lower then in ATI and Intel case, at any rate. It's not perfect, but is just the best offer available. Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
