[Gllug] Geforce2

[Stephen Harker]

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 21:02, you wrote:
> IIRC the stock XFree driver is called "nv" which works fine, but if
> you want to get maximum performance you need to install the
> closed-source driver that is called "nvidia". IIRC... :
Depending on your motherboard/processor/graphics-card combination, 
the closed-source nvidia drivers can be a bit unstable and 
occasionally freeze up. I have seen an Athlon/KT133/GeForce-256MX 
combination with the NVIDIA drivers freeze every time on Full Screen 
OpenGL apps. Guaranteed. Most annoying. There are known issues to do 
with VIA, Athlon, AGP and GeForce. The ordinary XFree86 'nv' driver 
doesn't do this but its not nearly as fast. Only really an issue if 
you are playing OpenGL games. 2D stuff is fine.
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Stephen Harker
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