Re: [LAU] Switching the distro

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 12:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > I'll switch the distro and it was mentioned that the current version of
> > X might not work with proprietary NVIDIA drivers anymore, resp. I read
> > something on the Arch Linux homepage, they excluded the proprietary
> > NVIDIA drivers, regarding to this issue.
> >
> > A misunderstanding.
>
> OK, I understand but personally I wouldn't worry about it. There is
> great support at NVidia for Linux and they're not going to drop that
> just because a new version of X came out. NVidia CUDA is huge in
> finance, 3D design, medical, etc., and a lot/most of that is Linux. If
> the newest versions of X are having trouble then that will get worked
> out quickly. On Gentoo I'm using xorg-server-1.9.5 with no problems
> using 270.41.19. I see xorg-server-1.10.5 in portage but it's still
> marked as testing so I haven't bothered with it.
>
> Being that there are no recent real-time kernels I think the use of
> NVidia isn't as much of a problem as it used to be years ago.
> Personally I don't need the real-time kernel anymore. The standard
> kernel is fast enough for my needs. (Sub-5mS) Being that NVidia works
> well with the standard kernel I'm pretty happy here. I suspect that
> properly setup your 7200GT will work fine. (I.e. - do whatever it was
> designed to do.)
>
> Good luck,
> Mark

Honestly, I just worry about prepackaged Linux, Suse, Ubuntu and others.
While Linux audio and MIDI becomes better and better, ready to go
'desktop' Linux cause more and more pain. PulseAudio, no xorg.conf for
default installs etc.. If need be I could live with a vesa driver, but I
can't live without a working mouse wheel, as I've got for my two Ubuntu
installs. Suse 11.2 is very old and the mouse wheel is working. I also
don't like packages that run update-grub2, especially if it's done by
three packages, one after the other etc., but this starts to begin
OT ;).

Time to get off-line and to install Debian ... I hope PPPoE won't force
me to download 8 DVDs. I'll now try the net-install.

Cheers!

Ralf

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Received on Mon May 30 00:15:04 2011