Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 18:43:40 UTC 2010


Hello,

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 19:55 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> I would like to ask any NVidia Fedora users do you use open source or
> proprietary NVidia drivers?
> 
It's really a personal choice. The nouveau driver (open source) is undr
heavy development at the moment. Sadly, it doesn't work great for me. 

> Why do you use driver that you use? Have you tried the other one? What
> are the benefits and disadvantages to both of them?
> 
> If you use proprietary drivers how do you install them? Which package
> or packages need to be installed? Which repository has best
> proprietary NVidia drivers?

Have a look at:
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod

> I’m asking because Fusion Linux [1] ships only with default open
> source drivers but if NVidia users wish I can also include proprietary
> driver and have it pre-installed by default. I don’t have any NVidia
> hardware running Fedora so any donations are also welcome
> 
> Pick your poison.
> 
> [1] http://fusionlinux.org/
> 
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Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur 

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