Re: NVIDIA 304.xx
On Sáb, 2013-04-06 at 19:54 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
2013/4/6 Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com>
On Sex, 2013-04-05 at 10:06 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> There is a 173.14.37 version available, but for the 304xx
legacy
> serie, It still need some rework to be introduced in F-19.
Still not understand if I need 304.xx or if 173.xx will do ,
but 173.xx
Both will work but the 173xx is the last driver to support geforce5
whereas the 304xx serie is the last driver to support geforce 6 and 7.
is not complete ancient and we hope Nouveau drive take care of
that.
(yes I'm suggesting in drop it :) )
Yes, maintaining legacy series is annoying, specially as none will
advertise anything higher than opengl 2.1 or vdpau feature wise. And
the more annoying is the 173xx serie that doesn't support xrandr, and
IIRC have some issue with modern desktops. So nouveau should be a good
solution hardware supported by legacy drivers.
But performance wise, the nvidia driver might still be better for some
hardware, so as soon as nvidia support newer kernel/xorg server I
don't mind to keep legacy series within the repository. And letting
users do their own choice.
OK, but about nvidia-304xx review, what do you think will be different
of Nvidia package for F18 ? is just the same adding -304 ? like we can
copy from -173 ?
Many thanks,
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Sérgio M. B.