Re: I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:00 +0000, paul cooke wrote:
On Friday 10 February 2006 14:41, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:59:54 +1100

Sasha Tsykin <psychosushi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
...to find that 3D xscreensavers now work with the nv driver. Does
this mean that I may remove the nVidia glx legacy driver now?

Cybe

no

Sasha

Hmmm, short and to the point.

OK, why not? If 3D functionality is now included in the nv driver what
does having the nVidia legacy driver do for one? And is this change
going to go forward? If so, a lot of nVidia users would like to know
about it, I'm sure.


It's software 3D (extremely slow), NOT accelerated 3D... for that you have to
use the nvidia driver, NOT the nv driver.

come back to us with your glxgears frame rate under that software 3D... and
we'll have a laugh... :)

ps. to get the glxgears frame rate use the following command:
glxgears -printfps

this is what I get with the nvidia driver:
|paulc@broken-drum:~$ glxgears -printfps
|13586 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2717.025 FPS
windowed
|1125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 224.866 FPS
full screen 1280x1024


There are many, many people who bought their PCs for doing real work and
don't care about the lack of hardware accelerated 3D - they would rather
run a truly free software OS than install proprietary drivers.

Lee


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