On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:26 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:18 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:47 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On 11:48 AM Jan Depner wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> 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!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >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.
>
> We've been through this before. If all you have to worry about is
> mpeg2 playback you should be able to get by with the nv driver. I have
> extreme 3D requirements (not games) and there is not a comparable driver
> of any type for any other card.
>
Yeah sorry I did not want to restart that flame war, I was just trying
to illustrate a point...
Lee
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