On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:50:12 -0700 James McKenzie wrote:
> On 10/14/10 1:52 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > This post has raised some heat in blog comments and also in Fedora
> > mailing list discussion.
> Discussing OpenSource versus Proprietary always brings heat. Folks have
> to remember thought, that the OpenSource drivers do not support features
> and products that the proprietary drivers do, due to the 'hiding' of
> information by Vendors and the time it takes to black box test a
> particular feature. That is a fact of life and we all need to keep that
> in mind when someone asks:
>
> "Open or closed source"?
>
> Well what video card do you have and what do you plan to do with it?
>
> Older model, 2D and simple 3D: Open Source, almost always.
> Newer model (not on the OSS driver supported list) or complex 3D.
> Proprietary, mainly. As the OSS driver picks up more features AND the
> video card becomes 'older' then the OSS driver should be selected over
> proprietary.
>
> Simple answer, complex solution as information has to be gathered and
> suggestions should be made with caveats "This works for me" or "Your
> Mileage May Vary".
>
> No need to argue here. This is about as cut and dried as it can be
> made. Some folks swear by Open Source, others at it. Some swear by
> nVidia/Catalyst/Intel, others at it. Nobody is ever going to be
> completely satisfied by someone else's solution if they are not doing
> EXACTLY the same things.
>
> James McKenzie
A voice of reason on this issue. Amazing. :-)
As for me, on every new Fedora release I install (currently running F13)
I try the latest open source driver first. Then I install the NVidia
driver (from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo). The latter has not yet failed
to be snapper when running the KDE Desktop Effects than the former.
That's on my desktop machines.
I also use very advanced display technology (it's my research) which the
open source driver will probably _never_ drive. (For example I'm
running a $10,000 NVidia Quadro Plex subsystem on one machine with
multiple gen-locked and frame-locked monitors.)
As for the OP's question of what driver:
[root ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep -i nvid
nvidia-settings-1.0-6.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-4.fc13.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-256.53-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-256.53-2.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-256.53-2.fc13.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64-256.53-1.fc13.4.x86_64
all installed via "yum".
Note the "akmod". It ensures (as I understand it) that a new
"kmod-nvidia" gets automagically compiled during the boot process
whenever I update to a new kernel. I've been using the rpmfusion stuff
(and Livna) stuff for years w/o any problems to speak of. (NB: Others
have had problems with akmod and don't use it. YMMV).
The one time I downloaded a binary driver directly from nvidia (about 1
year ago) for some experiements, the package borked the module
installation process so at boot time I had to always "rmmod" and the
"modprobe" drivers.
That's my experience.
Dean
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Dean S. Messing
Senior. Scientist
Display Algorithms and Visual Optimization Laboratory
Sharp Laboratories of America
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