Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

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  On 10/16/10 10:16 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM, James McKenzie
> <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>   On 10/15/10 1:31 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Hopefully the Open Source community will figure out how to support your
>> unique configuration and make us all happy.  Until then, you have to do
>> what you have to do.
>>
>> Thank you for the nice comment too.  I tend to live in the commercial
>> world but use Fedora/CentOS in my private life.
>>
>> James McKenzie
> I'll probably keep away from NVidia drivers for now, even if more
> people voted for them. Just because I would like to test Nuveao driver
> on different NVidia cards and see for myself how do they work.
>
That is great, but I doubt that the Noveau drivers will support four 
screens, but it would be fantastic if this driver did support multiple 
cards over multiple screens to present something like 4096 x 3000 (I 
know the first number is correct but the second is a little low).  Does 
this driver do something like that now?

James McKenzie

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