Re: 2009.1 and nVidia (was KDE alternatives)

Len Lawrence wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>>
>>>> The black screen problems I read about on the Ubuntu forum seemed 
>>>> to be due to lack of Linux support of  nVidia 
>>>
>>> I never had any trouble with nVidia, and I have had a variety of 
>>> high end cards of theirs.
>>
>> I can second that. All my machines are nVidia and that installs fine. 
>> It was also very simple to install the hardware accelerated drivers 
>> from nvidia themselves for that matter.
>>
>> Paul  (running gnome)
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> That was the case for me up to 2008.1 but according to the release 
> notes for 2009.1 nVidia has not released anything compiled against the 
> latest Xorg so the latest Mandrivas have to fall back on the 61xx 
> driver.  MyDell laptop (1920x1200) refused to give me anything but 
> 1024x768 on the 2009.1 install.  Advice from the Expert list helped me 
> to get back to 1920x1200 at the expense of losing extended GPU 
> capabilities, which I take to mean poorer rendering capabilities.  
> Have not investigated that in any depth yet but glxgears dropped from 
> a frame rate of around 17000 to 700 between 2008.1 and 2009.1.  I know 
> that glxgears is not a benchmark but the result is a bit alarming.  
> DVDs still play at normal speed but I have not tried GoogleEarth yet.  
> I have a similar Dell desktop setup and am hesitating about installing 
> 2009.1 because of the graphics problem.  The nVidia site does not even 
> feature x86_64 drivers now AFAICT, only IA64.  Those might be 
> up-to-date wrt Xorg.
>
> Len
>
>
Scrub that last remark.  A bit more poking around revealed that nVidia 
is supporting x86_64 up to the latest beta 190.32.  Now will that work 
with 2009.1?

Len



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