Lee Revell wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:47 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
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>>On 11:48 AM Jan Depner wrote:
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>>> I find it amusing that so many people who won't use MP3 due to its
>>> > "encumbrance" will happily run the proprietary Nvidia driver...
>>>
>>>
>>Is there an alternative to the Nvidia driver? If so, I sure would like
>>to know what it is!
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>>
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>Yes, the open source "nv" driver. Does not support hardware accelerated
>3D, but then again we care more about free software than being able to
>use every bell and whistle, right?
>
>
I care about getting the job done well, first of all. I sure would like
it to be FOSS, though!
On my systems, the nvidia driver seems to work better for mpeg2 than nv.
That's why I'm using it. But, it too has problems on some older nvidia
chipsets.
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