RE: nvidia drivers

["BG" <willygilly attbi com>]

ooops... my mistake Rick.  Sorry 'bout that.  I misunderstood your reply and
reference to "basic" driver and "nv" drivers.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Rick Forrister
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:01 PM
> To: redhat-list redhat com; ""BG" willygilly"@attbi.com
> Subject: Re: nvidia drivers
>
>
> BG wrote:
> >
> > Quite the contrary, Rickf.  With the use of the Nvidia
> drivers OpenGL and
> > other graphics tools are available.  OpenGL is not
> available with the Nvidia
> > cards when using the RH boxed driver.
>
> Please re-read what I wrote below.  It clearly states that I
> believe the
> basic nv driver (provided by Red Hat's XFree86 release) supports basic
> functionality, but won't support openGL, etc.  I also stated that the
> nvidia drivers support everything.
>
> Not so contrary... 8^)
>
> rickf
>
> >
> > Nvidia does an excellent job keeping up with new releases
> of RH as well.  I
> > think they had new drivers for 7.3 in RPM format posted on
> their website in
> > less than 1 month after the release of 7.3.  I have to say
> that considering
> > the power of the Nvidia hardware and software the
> combination have to be one
> > of the smoothest installs I've ever done in any Linux
> system with any
> > hardware.  Just adding a new disk drive to an existing
> system is more work
> > than installing an Nvidia card and software.
> [snip]
>
> > >
> > > The nvidia drivers will support everything up through the
> GeForce 4.
> > > I've done the kernel rebuild with a GeForce2 already, am
> picking up a
> > > GeForce 4 card today or tomorrow, so will be doing it
> again tonight.
> > > Should be interesting.
> > >
> > > I would imagine the basic nv driver should work for the
> > > GeForce4, but as
> > > is the case with all of the nvidia cards, won't support
> > > openGL, advance
> > > features, etc.
>
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