Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 04:27:12 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which nVidea driver to install Message-ID: <20090608042712.43c87019@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <h0hkvr$mtl$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <BLU0-SMTP8613F19A51990C194F61A193460@phx.gbl> <h0hkvr$mtl$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> wrote: > The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is > more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is > a larger number of dependencies. I think that's misleading, AFAIK it's more a case that it can optionally support OpenGL for Linux binaries, in which case it acquires some Linux dependencies. > Sometimes with laptop built-in chips it can be difficult to get > things going because of a non-standard resolution requiring a > non-standard modeline. In such situations the nv xorg driver will > probably be easier to get going. The ultimate fallback is VESA mode, > but nobody wants that if it can be avoided. I've never had a problem with either, they both have their own configuration program to generate xorg.conf
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