RE: How many people need to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

[Dan Burkland]

I have used the proprietary driver for its superb handling of 3D acceleration over nouveau. However, with the release of 2.6.33 near, I may give Nouveau as it now supports KMS (It may have in the past I'm not quite sure).

Dan
> -----Original Message-----
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> [e-mail]] On Behalf Of Steven I Usdansky
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:40 AM
> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
> Subject: Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ?
> (Or other non kms driver ?)
>
> On 12/23/2009 03:21 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver
> > instead of the nouveau driver.
> >
> > If you are using the proprietary nvidia driver or some other non kms
> > equipped driver, how are you finding F12 ?  Ie do you experience
> > freezing when you access some panel items ?
>
> Nouveau driver will cause X to freeze my system (HP s3707c w/ onboard
> GeForce 9100), with rebooting being the only option. No problems at all
> with the proprietary nvidia driver.
>
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