...but is nvidia any better?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/14/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
> I've been having an infinite series of problems with getting my ATI card to
> work correctly with FC6 x86_64, and the pointers I've been able to find
> in places like the Linux driver forum on rage3d.com don't give me warm
> fuzzies that ATI will ever fix anything (nor does the opensource radeon
> driver seem to work any better - it just has different bugs).
>
> So, what is the state of nvidia with respect to Fedora Core 6? Have the
> bugs been worked out? Is DRI and GLX and all that jazz working OK
> now with latest nvidia drivers? Are they compatible with Xen? Is there
> some nvidia equivalent to the rage3d forum I can visit to read all about
> the new trouble I'd get into if I switched cards?

The nvida driver doesn't use DRI.  Currently Xen isn't supported with
the nvidia driver.  nvnews.net is the unofficial forum for NVIDIA
users.


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