On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:19:02 +0000 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
There are also two alternative OSS drivers for nvidia "nv" which was developed with/by nvidia and is now discontinued and doesn't support the modern chipsets or nouveau which is a product of reverse engineering and only really supports 2D acceleration at the moment (so any compositing desktop ideas are out) it may work well enough as a general machine not sure what video performance is like though.
I'm using nouveau with an Nvidia Geforce GT220 card on a three year old PC running Mint 14 Xfce. I get perfectly acceptable video performance for DVDs, TV and video streaming at 1920x1080 resolution. I am not a gamer.
Occasionally though (say once or twice a month), the display will have odd colouration after a screen lock session. This normally clears after about a minute or so of use. I do not know if this is caused by the nouveau drive.
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