Re: NVIDIA driver compilation problem

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:27, Emeric Maschino wrote:
> Le lun 13/10/2003  10:23, Arjan van de Ven a crit :
> > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:19, Emeric Maschino wrote:
> > > Thank you. Oh yes, I forgot to say in my previous mail that I was
> > > running an Itanium-based workstation. Official nVIDIA 4050 release
> > > compiles without a problem. But the responsiveness of the Blue Curve UI
> > > is slow: e.g. when you point at a menu icon, the mouse cursor freeezes
> > > for a few milliseconds before the icon text is displayed. Loading the
> > > DBE module leads to a completely garbaged display and loading the GLX
> > > module leads to a X11 crash with signal 11. I think we might wait for a
> > > compatible RHEL 3.0 release driver from hp. An other story...
> > 
> > ... or just use the open source driver we actually include...
> > (which should support the hw just fine except for 3D)
> 
> Sure, I was using it until now. But I need 3D hardware acceleration for
> an OpenGL viewer.

in which case yes it's unfortionate.... Personally I use ATI hardware
(or more recently also Intel) for anything I need/want 3D with.. at
least they have open drivers, lots less hassle.

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