video card driver necessary?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Jul 10 17:47:56 UTC 2007
alan wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, yk wrote:
>
>> Hi,there.
>> I've been wondering the question "Is video card driver really
>> necessary for my Linux box?(quite dummy,I know)" since the very first
>> time installation of Fedora~
>> I mean,the universal video card driver sailed with fedora is good.
>> What's more,I broke my fedora when I try to install a ATI driver once~
>> So would you guys let me know is there *any* goodies that a video
>> card driver can do to me?
>
> It really depends on your video card.
>
> Hardware acceleration is a good thing. If you use anything that needs
> OpenGL or any sort of 3D acceleration, then you may need to consider the
> "commercial" drivers. (That is, if there is support for your video
> card. ATI does not support all the cards they currently sell. Always
> check the manufacturer's site for more information.)
>
> More and more modern programs need hardware and/or 3D acceleration. It
> used to be just games and CAD programs. Now it is desktop environments
> like Compiz/Beryl/Compiz-Fusion-bjork-bjork-bjork, screensavers,
> animation packages, and whatever else seemed like a good idea at the time.
>
> I have used various incarnations of with and without hardware
> acceleration. Even with the closed source driver issues, having
> hardware acceleration is far less frustrating than not having it.
>
My daughter can lock up my Nvidia based destop almost at will. Xorg is
using all the processing power and if I ssh into the machine and kill
it, then all is well.
Keyboard response is gone, so no other terminal can be opened locally.
I am going to try to debug this but it never happened before putting in
the Nvidia driver from Livna.
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